and informed us that: "They tell me that anything that's buried in these 

 yere bad lands for ten years gets peterfied. I know a place where a 

 man has been buried for seven years and I think he must be pretty near 

 done. I'm going to dig him up and see." I can only hope that he did 

 not carry out his intention of opening that grave, for the ranchmen 

 would have made short work of him for such desecration. 



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