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gard to weapons. "O you brave men, perched upon a hill," cried San Luis; "come down and fight if you are not afraid!" "Very fair, no doubt, you renegades, and dogs of the Spaniards," returned Coyote; "lay aside your borrowed weapons and we will come down." "Wild and uncouth, and beastly as you are," said San Luis, "we are a match for you with no weapons
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at all. See! we will lay them all aside, and you can heap yours beside them and place a guard over both. Come on!" And so it was agreed. Civilization calls it progress as more effective death-dealing implements are invented; may it not as truthfully be called
