![]() We'll have trouble keepin' him from getting right in the box with them pups.' He'll want to sleep right out in the barn with 'em. Jesus Christ, I don't know how we're gonna get him to sleep in here. George said, 'It wasn't much to you, maybe, but it was a hell of a lot to him. 'I would of had to drowned most of 'em anyways. Instantly the table was brilliant with light, and the cone of the shade threw its brightness straight downward, leaving the corners of the bunkhouse still in dusk.Slim sat down on a box and George took his place opposite. Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dusk.Through the open door came the thuds and occasional clangs of a horseshoe game, and now and then the sound of voices raised in approval or derision.Slim and George came into the darkening bunkhouse together.Slim reached up over the card table and turned on the tin-shaded electric light. ![]()
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