Alarmingly, to Pea, the creek had become a river, more than deep enough to swim a horse. She mainly had snatched kisses from her courtship, with Gus or Jake, twenty years before, to remember. Jake was up to being Jake, Augustus said. It was a depressing irony, for Gus had always been one to preach diplomacy with the red man and over the years had engaged in many councils that Call himself thought pointless.
Then you should have picked a cattleman to mention it to, Augustus said. While Soupy was fixing his bandana, they looked around and saw streams of sand like small, low clouds blowing in the dim light through the mesquite just to the south. Mouse had never behaved like other horses, and now he had even found a unique way to die. Makes me glad I stayed a bachelor.
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