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LAvGHING Boy 237 8 vou do yourself. It is as though you were shot 2 with an arrow. [ ‘I nearly went away with my wife without ask- § ing her clan. We spoke directly to each other, without shame, when we saw there was nothing 1} else to do. ‘It is not your fault that you were shot. Sup- pose you had starved for a week, and some Ameri- ? can, trying to be funny, the way they do, offered ® ou fish to eat. If you ate it, it would be bad, but tif your belly clamoured for it while you refused =, could you be blamed? No, you would have Bl Zone a good thing, I think. You have done a zood thing, a very hard thing. I think well of

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Jesting Squaw’s Son gazed at him searchingly,

8 :1d saw that he meant what he said. | ‘I think you are right. You have cured me of a 8 cep wound. Thank you.’ | ‘Let us start home. There are some of my Zorses in that little cafion, we shall get one, and urn yours loose. It looks thin. There is pasture “here, it will not wander.’ They caught fresh horses, and Jesting Squaw’s Son exclaimed at the height of the grass, which in some places grew over a foot, in clumps. There i was some like that at Dennihuitso, and in Kiet Sie] Buckho, but not at this time of year.

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