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MR . BUNT

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LU

Laughing 'Way back, Jim, I come. It's so far back we'll

forget about it, boy — but after they found I .

could manage the horses, they trained me in for an act, and I've spent my life going round that ring ever since. JIM

Won't it get you somewhere, Lu ? LU

Smiling

What ? Jest going round the ring ? JIM

I mean - don't you want something else ? LU

Why, Jim, that's all life is fer most of us. Jest going around the ring, doing the same act. They feeds us fer that. JIM

I know, but LU

Softly. I know, Jim.

You told me your dreams when

you first came and they be true, boy. You'll find 'em some day. JIM

I'm all right here, Lu. I don't ask for nothing

more as long as you and Danny is here. LU

But, Jim, you know what I told you. You've got it