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As it was, though, only three or four of Louisa's chickens watched the act, but even the fact that the chickens were standing around added to Roscoe's embarrassment. Zwey pondered that information for a time. He had been too sick to try and catch any of the rainwater. They rode for days beside the Bighorn Mountains, whose peaks were sometimes hidden in cloud.

I ought to told you never to cut the cards with that old cud, Jake said. Several of the men became convinced that he didn't mean to stop--that he would lead them north into the snows and they would all freeze. Pea had forgotten it. It seemed the farther they went through the plains, the worse things got.