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I guess that old man will be coming after you, Roscoe said, feeling nervous. Do I claim to be practical? he asked. Thank you for the picnic, he said. I had a feeling young Johnson was inexperienced, he said, and trotted off.

If it did, you wouldn't have to do risky work like being a deputy. Roscoe felt his neck begin to itch from the weeds. They rode upriver a mile, stopping where the mouth of a canyon sloped down to the riverbed. He wouldn't, I guess, Lorena said.