THOUGH I STARTED TO SAY THEIR I should have said the pieces of bark were in my pockets from the long walk in the woods and the trouble I got into there which was more soreness and stepping carefully and remembering the way back than trouble really but it is when I need to pay full attention and recall accurately that I feel the thought of what happens if I don't and it thrills me like trouble and the soreness is my companion like the dog and we tromp joyfully where no one is I mean that it is like we are where not even we are
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