The Law of Dreams
“Summer! The milk of the heifers,and ourselves brought the summer with us.
He lay on his stomach, concealed, watching cattle drovers pushing a herd of bullocks up toward the pass. He didn’t recognize their song, but it was low and plaintive, like all the cattle songs he knew.
A fat man followed the drovers on a pony. Dressed like a cattle dealer, in a cloak and boots and straw hat, he was swaying from side to side as if he were asleep in the saddle — and perhaps he was, a broad yellow ha...t shading his face.
Fergus had left the farm riding Carmichael’s red mare, blood on her saddle that he’d tried to wipe clean with handfuls of straw. He could ride her well enough but, afraid people would recognize her, he’d dismounted after a few miles and left her grazing along the road, where someone must claim her and feed her.
He’d found his way up the road into the pass, where he had been hiding for weeks, sleeping in a crevice padded with leaves, surviving on wild herbs, rainwater, and eggs stolen from birds’ nests below the cliff.MoreLess
He lay on his stomach, concealed, watching cattle drovers pushing a herd of bullocks up toward the pass. He didn’t recognize their song, but it was low and plaintive, like all the cattle songs he knew.
A fat man followed the drovers on a pony. Dressed like a cattle dealer, in a cloak and boots and straw hat, he was swaying from side to side as if he were asleep in the saddle — and perhaps he was, a broad yellow ha...t shading his face.
Fergus had left the farm riding Carmichael’s red mare, blood on her saddle that he’d tried to wipe clean with handfuls of straw. He could ride her well enough but, afraid people would recognize her, he’d dismounted after a few miles and left her grazing along the road, where someone must claim her and feed her.
He’d found his way up the road into the pass, where he had been hiding for weeks, sleeping in a crevice padded with leaves, surviving on wild herbs, rainwater, and eggs stolen from birds’ nests below the cliff.MoreLess
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