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LAavuGHING Boy 37 == old scar from which he took his name, “r:unded Face. It was an old eagle's head. —zzzhing Boy was a little afraid of it. “My uncle.’ Yes, my child’ The old-fashioned, round =-7=r earrings shimmered faintly.

have been thinking about something.’

~zeysmoked on. A black-and-white kid slipped = =e door, leaped up and poised itself on the ==te of a saddle. Outside was the rhythmic =zmp-thump-thump of a weaver pounding down == threads in her loom. A distant child laughed, == one was chopping wood — sounds of Lor ssticity. I have been thinking about a wife.’ “ou are old enough. It is a good thing.’ =: finished his cigarette. “You know that Slim Girl? The one who wears = =uch hard goods? She danced the first two

She is a school-girl” The tone was final.

| == was taken away to that place, for six - “zat is not all right. I do not know how she T= to be allowed to dance. They made her 1 =c Woeter Singer let her dance, but we stopped . mm. She is bad. She lives down by the railroad.

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