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Updated: May 17, 2025
Then we went to the house and got dinner, and the men drove up the buffalo into the barnyard and fed them hay, and we went out and played with the buffaloes, and Pa found his bull hadn't a scratch on him, and that he would lean up against Pa and rub against him just like he was a fencepost.
Here he was, the confidant of the most beautiful creature he had seen, and there was a mysterious letter coming to him Leonidas and no one to know why. And now he had a "call" to see her often; she would not forget him he needn't loiter by the fencepost to see if she wanted him and his boyish pride and shyness were appeased.
When Curlie returned from his mission ashore he carried but one bundle. That resembled a fencepost in size and shape. It was carefully wrapped and sealed in sticky black tar cloth. "Going to throw a message overboard in case we're lost, I suppose," laughed Joe. "Something like that," Curlie laughed back.
He was trying to look upon it all as a mere incident, a business matter, pure and simple, but he could not. While he rode the wide open reaches, there rode with him the keen realization that it was the end. For him the old life on the range was dead for had not Dill made him see it so? And did not every raw-red fencepost proclaim anew its death?
One second his eyes roved about the place; the next his lips parted as something bumped against his foot. Stooping, he lifted up a long affair the size and shape of a round cedar fencepost. It was this he had brought aboard just before sailing. It had been shaken down and had been rolling about the floor. Having examined its wrapping carefully, he shook it once or twice.
There was his eldest son going shearing or droving anything he could get to do a stoop-shouldered, young-old man of thirty. And behind them, in the end, would be a dusty patch in the scrub, a fencepost here and there, and a pile of chimney-stones and a hardwood slab or two where the but was for thirty hard years of the father's life and twenty of the son's.
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