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And further they now thought
out the beasts of the mountains...
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...the keepers of all for ests,
the inhabitants of the mountains...
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...the stag, fowl, puma, and jaguar...
:24:06
...the snake, rattle-snake, and viper,
the wards of the cr eepers.
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And the child-bear er and the
begetter of the sons spake...
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''Shall it be all void...
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...shall it be all still under
the tr ees and cr eepers?
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Would not it be wise now...
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...to have somebody watch
over them?'' spake they...
:24:34
... bethinking themselves and taking
council the one with the other.
:24:38
At once the stag and
the fowl wer e shaped...
:24:42
...and now they showed the stag
and the fowl their habitation...
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''Thou, stag, shalt sleep near the
course of the river, in the gorges...
:24:51
... her e thou shalt dwell,
betwixt grass-bushels and herbs.
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ln the for ests shalt thou multiply!
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Let it be so !'' they said unto them.