Apart from telling stories and speculating about whores, it seemed to Newt the cowboys would rather play cards than anything. Gus had been so affected by Deets's death that he had gone a little crazy. I wish we could at least have taken him to jail, Newt said. Besides, he had money from his own card playing.
He looked down at Pea Eye and Deets, and at the boy. In the shimmering mirages the men were always mistaking sage bushes for Indians. Whores got hearts, Augustus said. He only broke the bird's wing and had to chase it through the grass a long way, but the bird tired before he did, and he finally caught it, skinned it and ate it raw.
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