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`` Poor , poor daddy ! '' and Dick kissed him on the forehead . `` We must be four miles from the camp , '' Mr. Stevens said , speaking with difficulty because of his parched and swollen tongue . `` I should say so ; but I went toward the west , and after travelling until noon struck across this way , so have no idea of the distance . '' `` I shall die for lack of water , Dick , even though the wound does not kill me . '' `` How shall I get it , daddy ? '' the boy cried piteously .