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LavcHING Boy 35 =_z:n prescribed. He could not wait to see his == and have the matter settled before they ==: to the trading post for the races. At the = time, his own certainty told him that his <2 uncle, his mother, and all her kin were only + :71=d to ratify a decision already made. What + :3. was; he would announce what he wanted to z=. ot ask for permission. Now he stood on the rim above the cafion, == in sunlight, while below him in thick, —= le shadow unimportant people moved, horses =:mped, smoke rose from tiny fires. —:s uncle was staying down by the trading post == Killed a Navajo. He started off without T=:zxfast, leading the pony, and sorely tempted . = —ount and gallop those few miles, but the =: cht of the race and the pleasure of winning ==2rzined him. I'll win for Slim Girl, he thought ~~ %= a smile, and burst into song, lustily pouring | 2-1 keen delight from tough lungs over the 1 ==ztv flat. The dusty walk and hot sun, the | = that lay over the baked adobe and dull sage- L ar:sh. troubled him not at all. The bleak, grey 2 of the desert have a quintessential quality ~vacy, and yet one has space there to air one’s . m2. So Laughing Boy sang loudly, his horse 4 ad his back, a distant turtle dove mocked him, 2 high-sailing, pendent buzzard gave him up zr too much alive.