The soldiers had ignored his illness, but they couldn't ignore the river. I hate it when a child is sick, she said. Why, that's a leg pull, Jimmy Rainey said. You watch this end.
Roscoe had not forgotten it. Little Joe spent so much time around the jail that he became a kind of second deputy. Wasn't he driving the wagon? Lippy was sitting up, wiping mud off his head. Yes, Po Campo said, but he didn't explain.
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