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I guess it's a free country, the cowboy said. Jake had fallen into a drowse and didn't even know the man was there. When Jennie saw him she was not very embarrassed. The point is, I'd rather shoot him than hang him, Augustus said.

And yet, it wasn't--which is why the question finally forced itself out. It puzzled him how the years could have moved so, to bring them from such happy times to the moment at hand. I don't, Clara said. But he never interested me, Dad, he went on.