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Jack got up and went to the courtyard wall He stood as still as a rock fence except for one back leg, which tre all the contained force of whatever it was he wanted to do just then, but couldn’t After a minute he caht circle two or three times, and lay doith a soft moan

"Why do they do that? Turn in circles like that?" I asked I’d never lived with a dog and was slightly infatuated with Jack

"Beating down the tall grass to make a nice little nest," Loyd said "Even if there’s no tall grass"

"Well, I guess that ’s point of view"

"Sure it does" He bent forward to scratch Jack between the ears "We take these good, smart animals and put the the stuff thatcan’t think that ht"

We were both quiet for a while "How do you knohat the Navajos call coyotes? I thought you were Apache" I felt vaguely that it , but he didn’t seem offended

"I’rel, like Jack I was born up in Santa Rosalia Pueblo My mama still lives up there You ever been up there to Pueblo country?"

"No," I said

"It’s pretty country You ought to go sometime I lived up there when I was a little kid, me and my brother Leander, God, we ran wild all over that place"

"You have a brother? I never knew that"

"Twin," Loyd said "He’s dead"

Everybody’s got a secret, I thought, and for the first ti I remembered the child of Loyd’s that was unknown to hie to hold it init, and he ht see it