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“All right, so give me some idea of what you can do,” says<br />

Haymitch.<br />

“I can’t do anything,” says Peeta. “Unless you count baking<br />

bread.”<br />

“Sorry, I don’t. Katniss. I already know you’re handy with a<br />

knife,” says Haymitch.<br />

“Not really. But I can hunt,” I say. “With a bow and arrow.”<br />

“And you’re good?” asks Haymitch.<br />

I have to think about it. I’ve been putting food on the table<br />

for four years. That’s no small task. I’m not as good as my father<br />

was, but he’d had more practice. I’ve better aim than<br />

Gale, but I’ve had more practice. He’s a genius with traps and<br />

snares. “I’m all right,” I say.<br />

“She’s excellent,” says Peeta. “My father buys her squirrels.<br />

He always comments on how the arrows never pierce the<br />

body. She hits every one in the eye. It’s the same with the rabbits<br />

she sells the butcher. She can even bring down deer.”<br />

This assessment of my skills from Peeta takes me totally by<br />

surprise. First, that he ever noticed. Second, that he’s talking<br />

me up. “What are you doing?” I ask him suspiciously.<br />

“What are you doing? If he’s going to help you, he has to<br />

know what you’re capable of. Don’t underrate yourself,” says<br />

Peeta.<br />

I don’t know why, but this rubs me the wrong way. “What<br />

about you? I’ve seen you in the market. You can lift hundredpound<br />

bags of flour,” I snap at him. “Tell him that. That’s not<br />

nothing.”<br />

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