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until they had done so.
"Carefully," he cried, with a finger in his eye, and found
they thought that organ, with its fluttering lids, a queer thing in
him. They went over it again.
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A strange creature, Correa," said the one called Pedro.
Feel the coarseness of his hair. Like a llama's hair."
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Rough he is as the rocks that begot him," said Correa,
investigating Nunez's unshaven chin with a soft and slightly moist
hand. "Perhaps he will grow finer."
Nunez struggled a little under their examination, but they
gripped him firm.
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Carefully," he said again.
He speaks," said the third man. "Certainly he is a man."
Ugh!" said Pedro, at the roughness of his coat.
And you have come into the world?" asked Pedro.
Out of the world. Over mountains and glaciers; right
over above there, half-way to the sun. Out of the great, big world
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