Even as he started, Pea saw five or six Indians veer toward him. If she's at Adobe Walls, you'd do better to miss her, Augustus thought, but he didn't say it. Thinking of it in terms of months proved more comforting than thinking of it in terms of miles, so Pea tried that for a while. You want to have plenty of alcohol in you before you slip up on one.
I guess I can buy myself some clothes. How many Kiowas does he run around with? Augustus asked again. The older girl was trying to put something down the younger girl's neck, and she finally succeeded, at which point the younger girl began to hop up and down while the older one ran off, laughing. As the sun lit the grass, he rode east along the road of buffalo bones.
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