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It was September 3rd.
It was a week before school started,
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and I clumb Pike's Peak.
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_ Why?
_ It was there.
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_ You done what to Pike's Peak?
_ I clumb it.
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_ You didn't, you climbed it.
_ What's the difference? I got to the top.
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_ There ain't no such word as clumb.
_ What about the horse?
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She went to a lot of bother to get you
an education. Why don't you use it?
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_ Why did you steal the horse?
_ I didn't.
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I was in bed, and I heard someone
talking, so I looked out of the window.
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And old man Hyselman
was claiming I stole his horse.
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A grey horse? What did Katie say?
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She was as mad as he was,
told him to go look if he wanted to.
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Then he came out of the barn with his
horse, Ma behind him hanging her head.
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Then she come in all scared.
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_ Ma scared?
_ I never saw her like that before.
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She said he was coming back with
the sheriff, and I'd better leave the state.
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So I took off my pants, put on a suit
and left on the morning train.
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_ That ain't much of a story.
_ I liked it where he changed his pants.
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_ It was just starting to get interesting.
_ Very funny, ha_ha!
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Funny.
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Bud, how long did Ma live here?
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We moved over just after Pa died.
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Twelve hundred acres of the best land
anywhere. I wonder why she sold.
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_ A woman couldn't run it by herself.
_ She must have got some money.
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Why don't we go to the bank,
split it four ways?
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_ Three and a half is more like it.
_ Bud's got to have money for college.
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I ain't going to college.
I'm going with him.
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There's one thing you're forgetting.
You ain't been invited.
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I'd take you,
but I don't know where I'm going.
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_ But I ain't going any place I've been.
_ I can take care of myself.
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What do you say we settle everything
else first and talk about him later?