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Le 192 “TSAUGHING Boy ‘There's a hogahn.” She pushed forward. ‘ Hogay-gahn, bad. Do not stop here!” ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Don’t you see it is deserted? Don’t you see the hole in the north side? Some one has died here. Come along.’ She sighed in anger, gritted her teeth, sworz under her breath, and turned her horse back Nothing on earth would make a Navajo stcg there; he would not even use the dry timbers fc: firewood to save his life. Well, it was part of ths rest. ‘We are coming somewhere now,’ he called tc her. ‘How?’ ‘TI smell smoke. There, you can see.’ It was a well-built hut beside a corral. Smoke issued from the hole in the roof. The dome ci daubed mud and untrimmed logs looked beautifu! just then. Laughing Boy shouted at the door, anc a middle-aged man crawled out. ‘Where are you going?’ ‘To Chiziai.’ ‘You are out of the trail; it is far.’ ‘This snow confused us.’ ‘Where from?’ ‘To Tlakai’ ‘Where's that?’

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