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By God, that's a good one, Augustus said. Late the next day he came into the breaks of the Canadian, a country of shallow, eroded gullys. Pea dutifully got the saddle. It soothed the cattle but not the men--the songs were too sorrowful.

Augustus recovered a little. He was his usual careless self and let her get kidnapped by a real rough man. The only thing she noticed was that there were fewer trees. It was a very large bear, though; to Call it looked larger than a buffalo.