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                                SHEAVES


                                  By

                             E. F. BENSON

              Author of “The Angel of Pain,” “Dodo,” etc.


                       [Illustration: colophon]


                           _FOURTH EDITION_


                               New York
                       Doubleday, Page & Company


                          Copyright, 1907, by
                       Doubleday, Page & Company
                       Published, October, 1907


                          All Rights Reserved
         Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages
                      Including the Scandinavian




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CHAPTER I


The long and ferocious battle between those desperate wild Indians,
Chopimalive and his squa