I just love to read a story where the heroine is beautiful as a dream . '' `` Pretty people are always conceited , '' said Felix , who was getting tired of holding his tongue . `` The heroes in stories are always nice , '' said Felicity , with apparent irrelevance . `` They 're always so tall and slender . Would n't it be awful funny if any one wrote a story about a fat hero -- or about one with too big a mouth ? '' `` It does n't matter what a man LOOKS like , '' I said , feeling that Felix and Dan were catching it rather too hotly . `` He must be a good sort of chap and DO heaps of things . That 's all that 's necessary . '' `` Do any of you happen to want to hear the rest of my story ? '' asked the Story Girl in an ominously polite voice that recalled us to a sense of our bad manners . We apologized and promised to behave better ; she went on , appeased : `` Accadee was all these things that I have mentioned , and he was the best hunter in the tribe besides . Never an arrow of his that did not go straight to the mark . Many and many a snow white moose he shot , and gave the beautiful skin to his sweetheart . Her name was Shuben and she was as lovely as the moon when it rises from the sea , and as pleasant as a summer twilight . Her eyes were dark and soft , her foot was as light as a breeze , and her voice sounded like a brook in the woods , or the wind that comes over the hills at night . She and Accadee were very much in love with each other , and often they hunted together , for Shuben was almost as skilful with her bow and arrow as Accadee himself . They had loved each other ever since they were small pappooses , and they had vowed to love each other as long as the river ran . `` One twilight , when Accadee was out hunting in the woods , he shot a snow white moose ; and he took off its skin and wrapped it around him . Then he went on through the woods in the starlight ; and he felt so happy and light of heart that he sometimes frisked and capered about just as a real moose would do . And he was doing this when Shuben , who was also out hunting , saw him from afar and thought he was a real moose .
She stole cautiously through the woods until she came to the brink XXXXX a little valley .
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