To Call's great relief, the storm blew itself out in three hours. Soupy had rangered with them a few months, before they quit. The need to relieve herself became an agony--it was mixed with thirst and fatigue, until she didn't know which was worse. Although she kissed her girls every day and lavished kisses on the baby, it had been years since she had been kissed by a man.
She had never been so thirsty in her life, and had not imagined it could be such a pain. The grass was thick and wavy and there were plenty of streams. Po Campo walked all day behind the wagon, followed by the pigs, who bored through the tall grass like moles--a sight that amused the cowboys, although Augustus worried that the pigs might stray off. When Luke saw he wasn't going to change her mind with talk or the offer of money, he tried threats.
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