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 you do not lack for food."

Now in winter when the rivers were frozen people did not have very much use for nets, and Fish Catch consequently was often hard put to it for food. Therefor this proposal met with his entire approval, and he said so.

"But what," he said, "is the matter with your own cave?"

"It is a small cave at best," said Sunrise, "and we were crowded."

Fish Catch laughed cynically. He thought it not