Call and Deets held the horse still while Pea took the dying boy in his arms--then Deets led the horse ashore. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps. She didn't want to see other men, for any reason at all. Ain't decided, he said.
Often he and Joe went down to the river to fish for catfish. I didn't think we'd ever kill Jake. The simmering heat waves made him appear larger than he was. Ain't it in the Bible? Well, that was locusts, Call said.
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