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LaucHING Boy 275 about them at the reproductions of trunks, rings, branches, exact even to the way the snow lay upon them, beautiful in colour, and somehow rightfully dead. ‘There is a piece I could use.” Laughing Boy dismounted and picked it up, marbled in ruddy blue and yellow. ‘I can cut it up and polish it, and use it in rings and bow-guards.’ ‘Yes, it will be a new thing, if it is not too hard to work.’ They searched for a few minutes for more good fragments, then he mounted, shouted the pack- horse back onto the trail, and they rode on. II Red Man, on his way to trade at Jadito, rode past the mouth of Chizbitsé. He had not break- fasted, but the clear weather, the liveliness of his new horse, kept him cheerful. He looked up the cafion, saw them, and thought, ‘Those two!’ He crossed the cafion-mouth and stopped where a rock hid all but his head and shoulders. He was swept by an emotion of many factors which time and much mulling over had compounded into one. I helped that woman, I took care of her. Iran her errands, I made life possible for her. I loved her, in a way. I knew she was bad with Ameri-

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