Let him get his own buttermilk if he wants any. Crazy or not, the tall traveler had been smart enough to figure out that the sheriff of Fort Smith was traveling with a heavy heart. To hide them horses, Augustus said. Had it not been for that obligation he would have stayed a day or two and considered Louisa's offer.
Blue Duck came and went. I fully expected to die on it, but I guess the dern Arkansas will have to do. Gus must have been right. There are cows, he said, but you don't find them in bunches.
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