05/03/2026 18:27

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I wouldn't have one for anything. Ain't none ever helped me except my own pa, he said. I met a nice one named Mary, but they ain't all like her. He's Rosie's husband, Nellie said.

He cut Lorena a crude poncho out of a tarp he had picked up at the buffalo hunter's camp, but even so it was bad traveling. I took one in the lung and another seems to have ruint my hip. Yet the bull still pawed the earth and bellowed when the cowboys rode too close. The drive was over.