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All of his life Robert Grainier was able to recall this very moment on this very night.🌃

"A man-child couldn't do that way," she said, "just go off and live after it was weaned. A dog knows more than a babe until the babe knows its words. But not just a few words. A dog raised around the house knows some words, too—as many as a baby."
"How many words, Gladys?"
"You know," she said,
"the words for its tricks and
the things you tell it to do."

"How much does she know, do you suppose, Gladys?
As much as a dog-pup, do you suppose?"
"A dog-pup can live by its own after the bitch weans it away," Gladys said.

Though astonished now at the frenzy of the afternoon, baffled by the violence, at how it had carried him away like a seed in a wind, young Grainier still wished they'd gone ahead and killed that Chinaman before he'd cursed them.

A couple of the work gang cheered his escape, while others, though not quite certain why he was being chased, shouted that the villain ought to be stopped.

As this group passed him, Grainier, seeing them in some distress, lent assistance and found himself holding one of the culprit's bare feet.