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Let her rain, we're ready, Augustus said, taking the box of buttons from his saddlebag. I'll be damned if I'll do either one, John said, and without another word stepped over the fallen bartender and went back upstairs. He would have killed anybody. If it was I'd be feeling it by now.

A second later the cattle were running. But behind the little sand streams came a river, composed not of water but of sand. I suppose you ain't rusty, though, Call said. There ain't many of them chili-bellies that will bother you once they're afoot.