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Now the man was trying to get the clearing even clearer by pulling up the stumps, using a team of mules for the purpose. They came to a fair-sized stream and Wilbarger stopped to water his horse. I'm obliged. He was one of those men who have a laugh you like to hear.

Go, Elmira said. Soon he slept. Mister Jake taking a nap? he asked. The country rolled on to the north, as it had for thousands of miles, brown in the distance, the prairie grass waving in the breeze.