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CHAPTER IX I | Tour passing and corn growing cannot be seen; | = can notice only that the moon has become so x=ch older, the corn so much higher. With a new = almost more regular than the old, yet far more ¢ ==_ling, with a rich supply of silver and choice | ——uoise, with horses to trade and a cornfield to 8 == for, and all the world made over new, time xr Laughing Boy went like a swift, quiet river mar cottonwood trees. For him, life — which . =” never been a problem — was solved and per- | ®=:d, with none of Slim Girl's complication of | ®=~g that such happiness was too good to last. | =: he sat down at T’o Tlakai to compose a song _¥ zerfection, he could not have imagined any- =: approaching this. ® 1: nad always been a pleasure to him to work in | $= corn, to help make the green shafts shoot up, | xT %2:ch them dance, and contrast their deep, full [| #=<— with the harsh, faded desert. Among his

» - = corn was a living thing; to make a field

== ful was not so far from making a fine _ mr—-'2t, and far more useful. He drew the gus water into his field thriftily. At its | mr: he planted the four sacred plants.

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