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〃He only ate from you fellas;〃 Toot…Toot said。 He shook his head in disbelief; then bent laboriously over; picked up what the mouse had disdained; and popped it into his own toothless maw; where he be gan the job of gumming it into submission。 〃Now why he do dat?〃
〃I've got a better one;〃 Harry said。 〃How'd he know Percy was off?〃
〃He didn't;〃 I said。 〃It was just coincidence; that mouse showing up tonight。〃
Except that got harder and harder to believe as the days went by and the mouse showed up only when Percy was off; on another shift; or in another part of the prison。 We … Harry; Dean; Brutal; and me … decided that it must know Percy's voice; or his smell。
We carefully avoided too much discussion about the mouse itself … himself。 That; we seemed to have decided without saying a word; might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special; and beautiful; by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy。 Willy had chosen us; after all; in some way I do not understand; even now。 Maybe Harry came closest when he said it would do no good to tell other people; not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care。
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Then it was time for the execution of Arlen Bitterbuck; in reality no chief but first elder of his tribe on the Washita Reservation; and a member of the Cherokee Council as well。 He had killed a man while drunk … while both of them were drunk; in fact。 The Chief had crushed the man's head with a cement b