![]() She was glad there was no man around just then to tell her to show that horse who was boss. Okay, okay, she said, and handed it over. He curvetted like a colt, squealed, and cow-kicked alarmingly near her groin. As they swung around the barn, she took a carrot from her pocket and gave him the butt and noisily toothed the good half herself. ![]() She had walked him this morning until the rising sun snagged in the hackberry thicket. And it must be having some effect: when she walked Pelter these days he wasn't the sour fellow he used to be, he was sportive, even funny. ![]() ![]() She rolled her bony knuckles all along the fallen tree of scar tissue at the crest of the back, prying up its branches, loosening its teeth. “Her hands felt their way blindly along the ridges and canyons and defiles of the spine, the firm root-spread hillocks of the withers. ![]()
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