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Several times they came upon farms. It went out of me that winter I lost Jeff and Johnny. They shouldn't have took me, Lorena said, when she stopped crying. Pea Eye took off his boots and his shirt and made a bundle of them.

I'll buy you some new dresses. I can milk that old cow, she said. No, you'd just spend it on barbers, Augustus said. He kept trying to tell himself he shouldn't be surprised, for he had heard for years that Kansas towns were wild.