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had a paper bag which appeared to hold about three quarts of merkles. I asked how things had gone. He said that they had gone well. Then I asked, having told him that I had never seen or tasted a wild merkle, whether he could spare me two or three so that I might see and taste. He gave me two but assured me that if the weather remained right. I might find a gotnl lot of merkles on the mountain the next morning.
The weather was perfect, according to the standard judgment: a night rain, followed by a warm sunny morning. I took to the ridge, intent on applying all that I had learned over two years about merkle hunting, as well as some native cunning of my own.
1 decided that on the way out, along the path 1 had followed in the year 1981 of my last pursuit of the merkle, 1 would use the cursive method, letting mv eves
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