Hey, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Sean Johnson.

And you were listening to Close Reads a podcast for the Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing Willa Cather, Kater's, O Pioneers, if you listen to the last episode, then you know, you know that we're going to alternate. And who knows who's

going to be saying which, which pronunciations in this particular episode. We'll figure it out as we go

along here. We're going to discuss parts two and three in this section. Three is, three is quite

short. And two is the bulk of this, the bulk of this section.

So what we'll do is we'll do up to the section that begins the white mulberry tree.

Before we get into that, though, Heidi, how's it going?

I don't think so great. Yep, there is a dog groomer here and the name of her business is

what the fluff. Wait. And that's the name of her business is, what the fluff?

Wait.

And that's why I hired her.

Wait, wait, wait, hold on.

Which dog for your...

For my dogs.

They have to be groomed.

Does your lab get groomed, too?

Well, yeah, because if Penny's going to get groomed, and she's an aristocrat, then might as well get the peasant dog groomed too.

So it's like a mobile dog grooming service and I was behind this lady whose name is Karen.

She's a very nice lady, very good at her job at a stoplight several months ago.

And I was like, the name of her dog grooming business is

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