MY NEIGHBORS FIELD 



alien shrubs, and near by, three low rakish 

 trees of hackberry, so far from home that 

 no prying of mine has been able to find an- 

 other in any canon east or west. But the 

 berries of both were food for the Paiutes, 

 eagerly sought and traded for as far south 

 as Shoshone Land. By the fork of the 

 creek where the shepherds camp is a single 

 clump of mesquite of the variety called 

 " screw bean." The seed must have shaken 

 there from some sheep's coat, for this is 

 not the habitat of mesquite, and except for 

 other single shrubs at sheep camps, none 

 grows freely for a hundred and fifty miles 

 south or east. 



Naboth has put a fence about the best 

 of the field, but neither the Indians nor 

 the shepherds can quite forego it. They 

 make camp and build their wattled huts 

 about the borders of it, and no doubt they 

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