After supper the men went out of the house to smoke, all glad to escape the company of the silent woman. I won't stay very long. When the herd had moved on, he came walking over to her, his sack half full of wild plums. She ain't a whore, he said.
The shoat followed him around everywhere. His feet were cold and he knew he couldn't cut much of a figure in a fight with Dish. No, you don't have to get up yet, Deets, Augustus said. The ridges were varicolored, smudged with red and salt-white splotches, as if the fluids of the earth had leaked out through the cracks.
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