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         "You think I MEANT to be late fer supper? Rustlers
          tried to steal the herd on the back forty, the
          crick has flooded in the south pasture, the Kiowas
          staged another uprisin', a brushfire has burnt out
          the north flat, a twister done blowed away the barn,
          and on top of all that -- my dang horse demanded
          to stop at the saloon fer a bottle of red-eye."