Augustus held her close and didn't try to discuss it with her. As well as she knew the boys, as much as she loved them, time had robbed her of them. The black man just grinned and returned the needle to the little packet in his saddlebag. Those who had chased the wounded bear horseback could not stop talking about how fast he had moved.
In those times, the well-meaning efforts of Bob or the neighbors to cheer her up had merely affronted her. He had come to feel that Augustus had probably been out of his mind at the end, though he hadn't looked it, and that he had been out of his mind to make the promise he had. He sat for a while, trying to think of some argument that would make Gus let him stay with him. He growled a rough, throaty growl that caused a hundred or so cattle to scatter and run back a short distance.
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