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232 .. LAUGHING Bovy ‘Good.’ ‘There has been good rain, and the traders = paying twenty, twenty-five cents for wool.’ ‘Good.’ ‘And you, tell?’ ‘All well. Our goods sell well, the corn was f= this year. All well.’ L They smoked. ‘It is good to see you.’ =. Jesting Squaw’s Son made no answer. Laughizz 8 Boy studied him; he was too quiet. ‘What brings you so far from home?’ ‘Nothing, just riding around.’ ‘You will come to our hogahn?’ ‘Yes.’ . They finished their cigarettes, and sat looking = nothing. There was a pleasant, afternoon feelizg that tended to make talk slow, the smell of t= warm sand, quietness. After about five minutes Laughing Boy said: : ‘You might as well show me your true thought: It is all around you like a cloud. Itis what you a= | - thinking of all the time you are talking abc anything else. You are hurt. What hurts yeu f° whom I have called friend, hurts me.’ 1 ‘You are right. Give me tobacco.’ . He rolled another cigarette and smoked =f through before he began to speak.

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