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| 29 | 165 | But membership in such a band did not View more quotes about come">come easily. |
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| 29 | 162 | Too, I had gathered that leadership in such a band was not easily purchased, but often won by the knife or spear. |
| 29 | 163 | A defeated leader, if surviving, was banished from the group, being driven away into the forest, alone. |
| 29 | 164 | Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls. |
| 29 | 165 | But membership in such a band did not come easily. |
| 29 | 166 | Most often such candidates, particularly if slight and attractive, found themselves stripped, bound, and sold. |
| 29 | 167 | Others, thought to have promise, were sent naked into the forest with a spear, to kill a panther, and return with the bloodied skin about their shoulders. |
| 29 | 168 | Most, I had been told, do not return. |