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After a while he said to me,“You don’t have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”
“It doesn’t bother me.”
“No,I(51)______you don’t have to stay if it’s going to bother you.”
I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after (52)______him the prescribed capsules at eleven o’clock I (53)_______ out for a while.
It was a bright, cold day,the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it (54)_____ as if all the bare trees, the bushes,the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice. I took the young Irish setter for a little walk (55)____the road and along a frozen creek, but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and I (56)____twice, hard, once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice.
We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank (57)_____overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank. Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them (58)______into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush. Coming out while you were poised (59)_______on the icy, springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many (60)______________to find on another day.
(From A Day’s Wait)
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