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“Traveler, do not drink the warm water from this pool, all muddy from the quick mountain brook and the intruding sheep. Go a little further up the hill where the heifers are grazing, and there by a shepherd's pine you will find bubbling up through the porous rock a spring colder than northern snow.”

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