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LU

Laughing 'Way back, Jim, I come. It's so far back we'll

forget about it, boy — but after they found I.

could manage the horses, they trained me in for an act, and I've spent my life going round that ring ever since. JIM

Won't it get you somewhere, Lu ? LU

Smiling

What ? Jest going round the ring ? JIM

I mean - don't you want something else ? LU

Why, Jim, that's all life is fer most of us. Jest going around the ring, doing the same act. They feeds us fer that. JIM

I know, but LU

Softly. I know, Jim.

You told me your dreams when

you first came and they be true, boy. You'll find 'em some day. JIM

I'm all right here, Lu. I don't ask for nothing

more as long as you and Danny is here. LU

But, Jim, you know what I told you. You've got it