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CHAPTER 1I I S-ME one was calling him, “Ei shichai, ei-yer!’ He opened his eyes, staring upward at the face -: Jesting Squaw’s Son that laughed at him as he

27 high above him in the saddle. The face was in

s=adow under the circle of his stiff-brimmed hat,

T out against the gleaming, hard sky. The sun

= 23 halfway up. “Wake up, Grandfather! Big Tall Man is going <2 play tree-pushing against everybody.’ Hakone!” He was up at the word. ‘Give me a smoke, Grandfather.” He climbed up behind his I-iend’s saddle. ‘Come on.’ They stopped for coffee at a hogahn near the =20l, where the woman of the house mocked him or sleeping late. The people were gathered in a little box cafion, where fire had destroyed a number of scrub caks

~d pifions under one wall near a seep of water.

There they were dividing into two groups, accord- ing to whether they backed Big Tall Man or Man Hammer, the policeman from over by T’o Nanas- Zési. Hill Singer rode back and forth between,

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