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"I ain't hurt, but I'm swinged like a fool miller moth in a lamp chimley," he complained. "Who was that shootin' around so darned careless?" "Jedlick, dern him!" "It's a wonder he didn't kill somebody upstairs somewhere." "First shot he hit a box of t'backer back of Wood's counter. I don't know what he hit the second time, but it wasn't me." "He hit the side of the store."
It goes to twenty below in the winter, sometimes, and the wind blows like the plug had popped out of the North Pole, and the snow covers up the sheep on the range and smothers 'em, and you lose all you got down to the last chaw of t'backer. But you stick, some way, and you forgit you ever had a home back in Indiana, where strawberries grow."
He swept his hand around the emptiness of the town as Morgan drew near, giving voice to his contemplation. "Look at it not a dime been spent around this square this morning! I ain't sold but one box of pills in two days! If it wasn't for the little trade in t'backer and cigars of a night when the cowboys come in, I'd have to lock up and leave. I will anyhow I can see it a-comin'."
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