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`` Meinik and I will take up our abode close to the edge of the forest , for that will save us some four or five miles ' walk , each day . The first thing in the morning , you shall go with me and choose a spot ; so that you may both know where to find us . Two of you have got axes , and we will make a shelter in a tree ; so as to be able to sleep without fear of tigers when we go out there , though I dare say that we shall generally sleep near the town . However , one or other of us will always be at the spot , at midday , on the days when you are to meet us . `` Now that I think of it , two of you may as well stay at the shelter , for the present , while the other three and the two boys go home . Then there will be no occasion to take the long journey so often . When we do get my cousin out , we shall have to take up our abode , for a time , either here or in the forest , until he is well enough to bear the journey . ''