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LAavugHIiNG Boy 75 == zreen strip behind it, yellow-grey sand, and ==:r, dancing buttes in the mirage. _zughing Boy's attention was divided. ‘Do ==s= iron paths run all the way to Washindon? Tz:7 is a beautiful place; there must be much wz2:r there. I have never seen so many houses; =» many are there? Five hundred? I should I= 0 go there. Are there many trading posts, or Ts one? Those are rich fields. Can one come z= and see the iron-fire-drives?’ He silenced m—s¢lf, ashamed at having shown himself so =x—2d away. Let us not go there now,’ she told him quickly; T is better that we go first to my hogahn. The | mwses are tired.’ You are right. Are there more than five hun- . m=< houses?’ Yes, a few more. The iron-fire-drives goes by | m= times a day; it goes that way to Washin- mx and that way to Wide Water. Any one may i == =. Come now.’ t T:zey gave the town a wide berth, trotting east | == “he end of the irrigated land along a trail be- | m= two buttes. About three miles farther on, | ww the clay walls widened again to face the | mm—-rn desert, an adobe shack stood in the | mow of one wall. Behind it a tiny spring leaked mr Here they dismounted.

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