Grouse Thicket second to the right and straight on til morning

"I'm going to keep ask him," Day decided at once, running his nose over it one last time. "I wonder if he'll make a funny face when we show it to him."

As amusing as that thought was, they had work that needed to be done. Picking up the bone once more, Day continued to lead the way toward the river, his deviation from tracing footsteps having led him closer than they were before. "Thith way," he said around the bone, walking confidently through the trees. Ahead of them lay the river - just another thirty or forty minute's walk.

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