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Lavguing Boy 151 -BBeclow, it was all thick shadow. Their animals, =1 itepping delicately, were taking them down from nlight into late evening. 8B You, too, have your magic, your strong medi- wine, Laughing Boy, and I think it is greater than Wine. This is what I want you for. Some day we hall put our two magics together; some day you Bill bring me here, to have this always. You will Wing me, if it does not take you from me first. ITI At length they were reaching To Tlakai, riding iEown a slope of bald rock into a valley about three miles square, surrounded by moderately high ciffs. Here and there, at their feet, were clumps of scrub oak, peach trees, and the marks of summer iornfields, where water seeped out under the ircks. Along the north cliff was a long ledge, with te rock above it rising in a concave shell of light redocted under shadow. Along the ledge stretched lac imposing ruin of the Old People, at one end of m=ich, where there must be a spring, a strip of rss showed very green. Down the middle of the wa cv spindly cottonwoods marked the course of te wash. The rest was dull and colourless — mci hills, sand, rocks, sagebrush, greasewood, mr sheep. Nearly in the centre were five ho- mins, two square ones of leaves, deserted now