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Updated: June 12, 2025

And then he grinned at me. "Verdi!" he said sweetly. I applauded. Whereat the little Italian produced a bag of tobacco. We sat down on the rocks and smoked together, holding a wordless but perfectly intelligble conversation of pleasant grins. That night we had fish for supper! I got them for a song or, rather, for a whistle. I was fed with more than fish.

John Gneisenau Neihardt - The River and I