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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: to return to civilized life. The boys had been permitted to grow wild with the
Indian lads; to fish and shoot and swim with them; to play the Indian
games--to live idle, joyous lives. He said these white boys had been ransomed
and taken from captivity and returned to their homes and, although a close
watch has kept on them, they contrived to escape and return to the Indians,
and that while they were back among civilized people it was difficult to keep
the boys dressed. In summer time it was useless to attempt it. The strongest
hemp-linen shirts, made with the strongest collar and wrist-band, would
directly be torn off and the little rascals would swimming in the river or
rolling on the sand.
If we may believe what these men have said--and there seems no good reason why
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