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LauGgHING Boy 209 would use any power they acquired in combat- | og Christianity, short hair, shoes, ready-made i —ousers, and the creeping in of American-derived words. Already she had amused her husband by | sisting on calling coffee by its old, cumbrous zame of little-split-round-ones, instead of the | uch easier ‘coghwé,’ that had been taken into ~ t2e language. | Laughing Boy's reputation was spreading. I The Harvey agent had made her a tentative offer |: them to come to Grand Cafion. In the begin- zing of spring, at planting time, they moved forge | :2d loom outdoors again. At sunset, laying aside E —ols, or coming in, tired and at peace, from work- | =z in the soft earth, they sang together. | Now was the time when ponies began to grow ~%z7, and the desert was all one mass of flowers. B X:membering a good thing from her school days, | Sim Girl brought in great bunches, Indian paint . Zrush, fireweed, cactus blooms, and a hundred -zzhers, and stuck them in tin cans about the | 1cuse. This puzzled Laughing Boy at first, but f =-or he caught on, and enjoyed grouping them, | wth a good feeling for arrangements of masses of | clour, but little interest in the blossoms as such. There was movement in the desert. Horse- I —ding picked up again. The first sprouts of . —m came through the ground, the peach trees