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i re Retold) 238 *. LAUGHING Boy They jog-trotted towards Chiziai, silent most = the time, talking occasionally. ‘Up there, now, they do not call you by you- old name,’ Jesting Squaw’s Son said, and hesitatec Even when he is a close friend, one is not fres about discussing a man’s name before him. ‘I am not surprised.’ “They call you “Went Away.” Your unc: {i calls you “Blind Eyes.””’ E | ‘Unh! He would. Well, I am changed, it = | right that my name should change.’ Jesting Squaw’s Son trailed his rope to get th: | kinks out of it. Coiling it again, ‘But they mis: & you. You will always be welcome.’ ‘In the end, we shall return.’ ‘You live close to the Iron Trail?’ ‘On the other side of it.’ ‘Ei-yer! A good place?’ ‘You will see, a fine place, but we cannot tur our horses out there, as it is Americans’ country.’ : ‘But you are near the Zuiiis, too.’ ; ‘About a day’s hard ride that way. I trad: with them — horses for turquoise.’ ‘Have you any children?’ ‘Not now. We have a plan. We are makin: §§ much money now, we are working as hard as w: can. You would not believe how fast we make iz. } In a year or two we shall return to T’o Tlakai; w= |

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