Pea, you ought to buy you a bigger spade and go in business. He was glad to put the town behind him, and thereafter took to driving at night to avoid people, though it was harder on the buggy, for he couldn't always see the bumps. I expect your ma told you you'd be stolt, when you was young, Augustus said. But when he looked up and blinked the dust out of his eyes he saw an angry old man with a long sandy beard standing over him, gripping a ten-gauge shotgun.
I been calling him Custer, Old Hugh said. I've been known to get riled when I'm shot at. Dish found to his annoyance that his own breath caused his mustache to freeze, something he would not have imagined could happen. Charge a cow herd? Call said.
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