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Requiem for a Nun

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'You could call that lock 'axle grease' on that Indian account,' he said.

'Fifty dollars' worth of axle grease?' Peabody said.

'To grease the wagons for Oklahoma,' Pettigrew said.

'So we could,' Peabody said. 'Only her name's Jefferson now. We cant ever

forget that any more now.' And that was the courthOUse-the courthouse which

it had taken them almost thirty years not only to realize they didn't have,

but to discover that they hadn't even needed, missed, lacked; and which,

before they had owned it six months, they discovered was nowhere near

enough. Because somewhere between the dark of that first day and the dawn

of the next, something happened to them. They began that same day; they

restored the jail wall and cut new logs and split out shakes and raised the

little floorless lean-to against it and moved the iron cbest from

Ratcliffe's back room; it took only the two days and cost nothing but the

labor and not much of that per capita since the whole settlement was

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