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[anahip]

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The following days were unlike any that had gone before. There wasn't a man on the ranch who didn't know of Saturday's race and the conditions under which it would be run. They gave any excuses to get near the black stallion's corral.

The sun climbed higher, and with its ascent the desert changed. There was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. One evening, after dark, she crept away and tried to open the first gate, but swing and tug as she might she could not budge the pin

Have you find any difficulty in particular?

[Lil O'lady]

A homage to Papa Hemingway. Short pithy sentences. It paints a quick word picture. It deals with manly subjects. Even the women are gritty.