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| 12 | 55 | Under no View more quotes about circumstances">circumstances were they to engage the enemy. |
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| 12 | 52 | I nodded. |
| 12 | 53 | These lads, and lads like them, were set to watch the herds, not to defend them. |
| 12 | 54 | At the first sign of danger, such as the appearance of an enemy party, they were to bring the herds back to the village, sending one lad ahead to sound the alarm. |
| 12 | 55 | Under no circumstances were they to engage the enemy. |
| 12 | 56 | Red savages do not set boys to fight men. |
| 12 | 57 | Too, the lads were in little danger. |
| 12 | 58 | It would be very difficult for a mounted warrior, even if he wished to do so, to overtake a boy, lighter in weight than he, on a rested kaiila, by the time the lad could reach the lodges, usually no more than two or three pasangs away. |