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Let him be, he said. If you could just learn to handle an ax you might make a good farmer. We'll take good cane of them, Call said, wasting words. That's where I learned to play the piano.

I didn't want to be a doctor or a lawyer, and there wasn't nothing else to do in those parts. He had a boyish innocence and kept it to the end, despite the strains of work and marriage in a rough place. But the plains were empty. I'll buy you a meal and we can sit and talk philosophy.