They had ridden for nearly a hundred miles and seldom been out of sight of buffalo. Only white men are dumb enough just to keep on fighting no matter what the weather is like. He was afraid he might drop the child, who twisted in his hands like a rabbit and yelled so loud he turned red as a beet. He had a little dream about the wild pigs, not too frightening.
He was proud as a turkey cock around other men, irritable and quick to pass an insult. Then a bear didn't get her, July said. It looks like sandy times ahead, he said. Zwey wouldn't--he was too shy--so the woman brought their suppers out and they ate in the wagon.
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