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She showed him her finger.
"Yes," said Anton. "A scratch.--Well, let's do something!"
"Pick up your arms and let's walk along the shore!" suggested
Pashka.
"For that we didn't need to crawl ashore," Anton said.
"It's chicken to stay in the boat," stated Pashka. "But along
the shore
there are all kinds of things. Reeds, canyons, whirlpools,
eddies with
eels--and catfish, too."
"A school of hard-boiled catfish," said Anton.
"Hey, did you ever dive into a whirlpool?"
"Sure."
"Funny that I didn't see you do it."
"Lots of things you haven't seen yet"
Anka turned her back on them, raised her crossbow and aimed at
a pine
tree 20 feet away. The bark came off in splinters.
"Wow, did you see that!" exclaimed Pashka with admiration.
Then he
aimed his air rifle at the same spot. But he missed. "I didn't
hold my
breath properly," he said.
"And even if you had held it properly, so what?" asked Anton. He
looked
at Anka.
With a firm movement Anka retracted the steel bow with the
winch. She
had splendid muscles, and Anton watched with pleasure the hard ball
of her
biceps rolling beneath her tanned skin.
Anka took aim carefully, and shot again. The second arrow
penetrated
the tree trunk, a bit lower than the first
"That doesn't make any sense," said Anka, and let the
crossbow hang
down her side. "What?" asked Anton.
"We're only damaging the trees, that's all. Yesterday, a kid

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shot an
arrow at a tree and I forced him to pull that arrow out with his own
teeth."
"Pashka would have run away," said Anton. "You have good teeth."
"I can whistle through my teeth, too," said Pashka.
"Well," said Anka, "let's do something!"
"I don't feel like climbing up and down canyons," said Anton.
"Me neither. Let's walk straight ahead."