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keeping those crazy creatures together, 
and ever pushing them forward. The 
dust and heat and noise and smell and 
continual action made my head ache. 
So this was cowboy lite, Wan’s choice ! 
I thought of a certain far away, well 
ordered home, with perhaps a sweet 
voiced mother and well groomed sis- | 
ter, and wondered, even while I knew 
the answer. On the one hand, peace, | 
comfort, affection, and the eternal 
sameness; on the other, effort, hard- 
ship, fighting sometimes, but ever with 
the new day a whole world of unlived 
possibilities, change, action, and bond- 
age to no one. 
-\z 
“OO MAMOZM 
A particularly fractious heifer at 
this point suddenly changed my con- 
templation of Van Anden’s charac- 
ter into a lively share of Van Anden’s 
job. The creature was making good 
