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good at the time, but which I do not remember. I heard loud laughing and talking which told me that they were having a lovely time. After a great first effort of listening, I at last could make out what they were doing. They were playing a game which seemed to excite them very much indeed. The party had divided itself into two parts, those on the right counted the animals which they saw, while those on the left did the same; those who seen [[note above]] 2 [[/note above]] first a hundred had won the game. When one half thought they had won the game, the other would quickly get ahead of them, and so one never knew who would win. When a great many different games were played, and the party grew livelier and livelier and at last so loud that I wished they would stop. Soon we reached the foot of the hill, where a way led to the village; you could see men sitting and carving different pretty things. We soon arrived at a little house, where all left me; but I could still hear their merry voices from the distance. [[crossed-out]] but [[/crossed-out]] soon my time came, where I had to take my homeward course which was very lonely indeed. C