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36 LavcuiNG Boy : Killed a Navajo's hogahn was well built, of §& thick-laid evergreens over stout pifion poles. Looking in through the wide door one was con-# scious of cool darkness flecked with tiny spots oi @§f light, a central brilliance under the smoke-hole. I vague outlines of reclining figures, their feet. #8 stretched towards the centre, grotesquely clear. He stood in the doorway. Some one spoke to him. | I ‘Come in. He shook hands all round. They offered him a little coffee, left over from break-§ fast, and tobacco. He made himself comfortablefg on the sheepskins beside his uncle in the place off honour. - One by one the family went about their work the children to tend the sheep, Killed a Navajog' down to the store where he did odd jobs, and wasgl} needed to-day for distributing free food, higg younger wife to preparing a meal for the mang guests expected that day, his first wife to weaving outside. Laughing Boy's cigarette smoke went upg in shadow, was caught in a pencil of sunligh & disappeared, and gleamed once again before iff seeped through the roof. A suggestion of a bree 4 rustled the green walls. He studied his uncle's face — big and massive, with heavy, highg bridged nose and deep furrows enclosing the wideg = sure mouth. Under the blue turban wisps of haifg showed a little grey. Across his cheek-bone ran 8 Ww sii ga