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He liked an animal that was as alert as he was--or, in the mare's case, even more alert. He took it as a slight and said he would draw his wages and go if that was how things were going to be. I can milk the cow early, Sally said. He would have to wait.

You'll probably die of boredom this winter and I'll never get to Clara's orchard. On some mornings things rolled inside Clara, and made her tense and snappish. It could only be for a few days, he knew. So desperate were their family circumstances that Call was almost hesitant to take them.