Pea Eye took off his boots and his shirt and made a bundle of them. He couldn't understand why the Captain had given Newt the horse, the gun and the watch. Stick it through your belt and down your pants leg, Augustus said. The opportunity existed, for Augustus was just driving up to the drygoods store in the wagon, and the Captain rode beside him on the Hell Bitch.
He had filled his wheelbarrow and was heading back to camp. Them's _beaver_, Old Hugh kept saying. An hour before, he had been so hot he thought he would never be cool again, but the drenching water had already made him cold. His name was McCrae, Call said.
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