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Show IdH. Bunny said. They lost their burro -spent four days finding I t . Ya' knoxr that storm about then when the horse took us to the Dream Bine cabin in the blizzard? They had an axrful time; k i l l e d t h e i r burro for meat an' jus' nearly froze to death. Bucke i s at his friend's Alphexrs Bull's place gettin* xrell and he says xrhen Allen didn't think they xras goin' to make i t , he hid a l l his maps n'claims in a fallen tree trunk." Bill sat back doxm. "Both the Groshes dead. They were fine men. Hardxrorkers and smart." Bill nodded. If they thought Gold Canyon was rich-my guess is that i t is J Didn't happen to bring that Observer did you? Olaf said, "Baah-should have. I knoxr hoxr you like to read the news but " "I brought you some carrots for L i t t l e B i l l , " Sunny said and reached into his back pocket-his pants seemed to be getting too small for him- as he tugged and pulled out pieces of green tops f i r s t and finally three small wilted carrots xrith t h e i r tops s t i l l on them. "Sunny, t h a t ' s the best thing you could have done. Olaf, do you think I could, feed some of this green to L i t t l e Bill? I'm afraid he's beginning to get that rash again like he had in the xrinter." "Bcver have heard of anyone eatin' carrot tops." Olaf picked up his bottle from the wash stand. |
