07/03/2026 17:41

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I wish you'd stop talking about that boy's death, Call said. He was vain about his looks. We hung him. Dish looked at him stubbornly.

It must be that wavy grass that gives it the blue look--or else it's the air, Augustus said. What kind of country was it where you could get frostbite one night and sunburn two days later? He saw a couple of prairie dogs and wasted an hour trying to get one with a rock. I'll watch west and you watch east, Augustus said. I reckon it'll be some while before anything happens, if anything does, he said.