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Hd 220 i LAUGHING Boy there be children? We should have had child== I want children. I want to go home. Wha: = happening to me? I am losing myself. She hous the reins and I am becoming a led horse. T=. three years, all like this, and Sings Before Spez—= who was a warrior, will have ended, and there =X just be that part of a man which worships = woman. Not the rest of him, just heat. A biw- string without a bow. Only good for a womar = tie something with. I need some more medicine. Another stiff drink sent him over the borc=- line into incoherent plans for performing wond:= Three or four more put him to sleep. He was in pretty bad shape when he awcs= late, with the high sun beating upon him. k= went down to the arroyo and dabbled in i= shallow, unfresh water. He was not as sick as t== other time, but he was sick. ‘When you wake up, you will feel badly, but = then you take a little more, you will feel all righ” He would try it. The smell made him fe worse. He poured some into a cup, returned :: the arroyo and weakened it with water. Then t= : downed it in one straining gulp. He did feel be:- (8 ter. Perhaps he might take a little more, kz thought, reaching for the bottle, and paused wiz | it half-tipped for pouring.