He tried to get the other boys to wait on him--in his state he could have been easily robbed and beaten, as he pointed out--but his companions were indifferent to his fate. But when they approached Augustus with the information about the snake, he laughed at them. So long, boys, he said. Probably they had a camp nearby, and when they got there they might stop laughing and butcher him and the cattle both.
He knew that with a little better luck she would have been loose and gone. Why can't we have it now? Augustus asked. Lorena sat on her saddle and ate. Lorena sat in the water, her clothes soaked, not caring.
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