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XXVI. COMPOSITION

PAGE 112, LINES 16-3 (page 113)

Two days passed. He found six bits of cedar and obtained a fire.

He killed some reindeer and preserved the torn flesh in the ice.

It was preserved thus all the year. Having no axe he transported

to his grotto the splinters of the trees torn to pieces by the

frost. Every morning he began again[3] the struggle with the cold

and the solitude, because he desired to live and to return some

day to his hearth. He adored life.

[Footnote 3: Use volver a (with infinitive).]

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PAGE 119, LINES 6-23

He was mistaken. He will not see the spring this month. I believe

he can not suffer longer. What will become of him? When will he

see the sun appear in the dark firmament, where only the stars

and the moon are seen? It is night here; it is January. We see

only frozen seas. The snow covers the valleys and mountains. One

would believe that the Creator has forgotten this world and that

spring will not come to visit it as it visits other lands.

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