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carrying something heavy."

"Perhaps No Man wants One Eye's daughter," said Fish Catch with an ugly laugh.

"I wonder what he is carrying?" said One Eye.

This No Man was so called, because he would neither hunt, fish, make weapons, nets, or marry. Therefore he was No Man. He lived on charity, and scratched pictures on bone. That was the only thing that interested him. He was suffered to live only because he was mysterious and because the tribe liked to