Marco And the Devil's Bargain (2014)
“He saw them as a superstitious, lazy lot, more inclined to put things off. After casting his lot with the New Mexicans, mostly against his will, he had been revising his opinion. The speed with which Marco and Paloma organized the inoculations fairly amazed him.
He didn’t think Paloma would consent to put down that baby, but she did, handing the child to Eckapeta as she hurried into the tipi for her medical kit. Marco wasted not a minute in securing lodge poles from the pile of unburned one...s someone had spared when they destroyed the tipis of The People stricken with disease. He called for rawhide and was soon weaving a platform for that space between the poles.
“We needn’t hurry,” Anthony said.
“We had to go quite a distance to find those deer, and tomorrow Toshua and I will hunt again, probably even farther afield,” he said, continuing to twist and knot the rawhide. “Meat is scarce and we need meat.MoreLess
He didn’t think Paloma would consent to put down that baby, but she did, handing the child to Eckapeta as she hurried into the tipi for her medical kit. Marco wasted not a minute in securing lodge poles from the pile of unburned one...s someone had spared when they destroyed the tipis of The People stricken with disease. He called for rawhide and was soon weaving a platform for that space between the poles.
“We needn’t hurry,” Anthony said.
“We had to go quite a distance to find those deer, and tomorrow Toshua and I will hunt again, probably even farther afield,” he said, continuing to twist and knot the rawhide. “Meat is scarce and we need meat.MoreLess
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