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LavgHING Boy 87 TESS ES US SS AS SS SS SSNS SSS INI . -c: afternoon. He watched them walking, with . #e— long shadows rippling over the unevenness EL == x= ground and the occasional bushes.

What are those coming? They look like Pah-

|. Gres perhaps. They look like Hunger People! | ®zcrags!” . Toey are Navajos; that is Yellow Singer. £ Tey look like that because they are poor, that’s | al He has come to sing over us.’ . Tr-ere was something about those two faces | m= made Laughing Boy uncomfortable, as § mach a black veil had been pulled in front of | me They were people who would have un- || p===cnt laughter. Both of them looked at him mr >pen curiosity and an expression of under- mmociag that bothered him. As they exchanged | marr! greetings, these two seemed to be extending | mm I a sympathy which he did not want. Then | Sm Girl came out of the house dressed in her | mes costume, and they were expressionless. | B= 100, Laughing Boy was not concerned any =. | = ow Singer's wife handed a medicine basket = 3 Girl, which she filled with the corn mush Low z:1 prepared. The singer placed it in the = — lace on the floor of the house. Laughing z=tered carefully. He was thinking hard what he was doing; he was putting forth