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Ee 82 LAUGHING Boy certainly, his open mouth showing the remnan=§ of yellow teeth. She noticed his toes coming ou | from the ends of cast-off army boots. ‘Wake up. Were you drunk last night?’ He grinned. ‘Very drunk. You lend me z] dollar, perhaps?’ E ‘You keep sober this morning, perhaps I give you a bottle.’ ‘Hunh?’ He focussed his attention. ‘I am going to be married this afternoon. want you to come and sing over us.’ ‘Coyote!’ He swore, and then in English, ‘Go¢ damn! What do you want to get married for? What kind of a man have you caught?’ ‘You talk too much, I think; it may be bad for] you some day. You come this afternoon and sing} over us; I shall give you a bottle. Then you keep] your mouth closed.’ He read her face, remembering that her granc- mother had been an Apache who, in her time, hac} sat contemplating the antics of men tied on ant-| heaps. And he knew this woman pretty well. ‘Good, Grandmother,’ he said respectfully, ‘w=§ shall come.’ She left without more words. In the town she had shopping to do — food, a jeweller’s simple} tools from a trader, a can of Velvet tobacco and! big, brown Rumanian cigarette papers. Then she} 1 - ge al