I'll tell him that, Elmira said. He was wiping out glasses with a little white towel and setting each one carefully on a shelf. July didn't answer. She scowled fiercely at the girls until they backed off.
If she went up the Arkansas I'd imagine she's up in Kansas, in one of the towns. At times the hens seemed to her almost more trouble than they were worth, for they had to be protected constantly from coyotes, skunks, badgers, even hawks and eagles. The man at the livery stable had worried him. Though he had been more or less scared of Clara all day, and was still a little scared of her, there was something powerfully appealing about her, too.
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