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170 LavuGcHING Boy I OOOO INSSISSS SIS ISI grain of tobacco. ‘My nephew, we do not think = 1 is good, this thing you are doing. We have talkez : about it a long time among ourselves. We knew 1 about that woman, that she ’ | Laughing Boy raised his head. ‘You have sax § those things once, uncle, and I have heard the= | Do not say them again, those things. If you cz. ¢ there will not be any talk. Tell yourself that : have heard them, and know what I think of the= } They were said in Killed a Navajo's hogahn. : heard them there. Now go on from that.’ | They talked, watching the end of their ciges- : ettes, or with the right hand rubbing over the f= gers of the left, as though to bring the words ou: | or touching each finger-tip in turn, with their ey: | upon their hands, so that the even voices seemez 1 utterly detached, the persons mere media for uz | tering thoughts formed at the back of nowhere. § ‘Perhaps you are mistaken, I think, but I do a= you say. You are making unhappiness for your- | self, you are making ugliness. You are of The} People, the good life for you is theirs. Itis all vers} well now while your eyes and your ears and your § nose are stopped up with love, but one day voi will look around and see only things that do nx} fit you, alkali-water to drink. You will want ycx ] own things, and you will not be able to fit them. either, I think. :

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