Dish Boggett's got a truer heart than Jake Spoon, although neither one of them has much sense. Dish, you're a top hand, you ought to take the first helping, Augustus said. As for the little boy, wiggling in Clara's lap, he didn't know what to think. It was dust that caused her firstborn, Jim, to cough virtually from his birth until he died a year later.
Let him lie, Clara said, thinking it had been an odd day. He felt he couldn't live another night so alone and hungry. Gamblers eventually showed up in a town somewhere, and could always be found. Maybe it's the wind getting up, she said.
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