Call had been shoeing a horse when Pea brought him that piece of news, and he felt so empty for a spell that he had to put off finishing the job. If I were you I'd make your will while you're still sober. Once more, on a perfectly nice day with everything going well, death had struck and taken another of his friends. Jake decided he was crazy for taking up with Sally--she lived too raw for him.
He ran one way and then the other for a while, thinking there might be two identical boulders--that the horse might still be there. He rose to his feet but did not exactly straighten up. Call knelt by the boy, helpless to do one thing for him. And it didn't occur to her to drink, an omission she would soon regret.
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