A larger bore and he would be down and probably dead. Everyone wondered when he would stop going north, but no one dared ask. If she won it would all seem like a joke, something that Gus had cooked up to pass the time. It was deep dusk, and birds--bullbats--were whooshing around--she could see them briefly as shadows against the darkening sky.
on, and if you do find him he'll just go off and try to find a wife that don't want to live with him anyway. The water was cold, but Gus went splashing off across the pool. Though the two of them had soldiered together for most of their lives, they had never really had a conversation. He realized then that the young Indians were laughing because he was so dumb he didn't even know which way his own cattle were.
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