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I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

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Tonight we continue readings from American Big Game Hunting from the Boone and Crocket Club.

The White Goat and his country is where we're going to continue.

It is the next chapter from the previous one.

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The White Goat and his country.

In a corner of what is occasionally termed,

our empire of the northwest.

There lies a country of mountains and valleys, where, until recently, citizens have been few.

At the present time, certain minds and uncertain hopes have gathered an eccentric population and devoted some sudden towns.

The name which several of these bear are tolerably sumptuous, golden, and ruby for instance and in them dwell many colonels and judges and people who own one suit of clothes

and half a name and who sleep almost anywhere these communities are

brisk and nomadic full of goodwill and crime and in each of them you will be likely to find a weekly newspaper and an editor

who is busy writing things about the neighboring editors the flume slants down the hill

bearing water to the concreter.

Buckets unexpectedly swing from the steep pines into mid-air.

Sailing along their wire to the mill, little new staring shanties appeared daily.

Somebody having trouble in a saloon upsets a lamp

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