We got no horses, now. Ma sold ’em when I was little. You don’t need ’em when you live in town, she says.’ ‘That where you live? In town?’...I nodded. ‘We had a place out that way.’ I waved a hand upstream. ‘But we lost it. No rain for two years. The well went to dust. Ma said there was no point in staying there just to dry up and blow away.’ I ran an eye across the fat bedroll behind his cantle and down over his scarred-up leather leggings and boots. His saddle gun nestled in a fringed leather. Now here's my or our plan...." Rusty begantelling Cal and Marty the scheme he had concocted. Marty, weak willed as always, was still wavering, "We'll get caught." Never. Not as long as we're careful and keep changing disguises." But....." Are you in or not?" Rusty asked back angrily. "Or are you both chicken?I'm not!"Marty and Cal were still leery. Rusty tried a change of tactics, makinga soft sell instead."We all need some help now. I'm a former junkie and admit it. No onewill ever hire me for. Enaku thaan theriyum avalai paarthaal ena velam seiyuvaal endru, aval kangalaale ennai kamam seiyuvaal. Naanum evalavu natkal thaan vendam kathali akka endru irupathu. En aanmaiyai seendi konde irunthaal, aval kanavan velai undu avan undu endru irupaan. Enaku manathil kavalaiyaaga irunthathu, ena da kathali akkave ippadi irukirale endru.Aval mulai ennai kupitu konde irunthathu, ennai eppavum ravi neengal en veetil thaan sapitu vitu poganum endru soli konde irupaal. Appadi aval veetil sapidum. Once again I offered the cane to the target area and tapped it gently. “Are you ready Lucy?” I enquired “Yes Sir, I’m ready” she replied. Drawing the cane back a little further this time I brought it down with a resounding ‘thwack’ across the lower part of her bottom “Eee-ow-ow-ow!” she wailed thrusting her head back as she did so. Lucy contorted her bottom before returning to position “Seven Sir” she eventually responded. Without delay I delivered another similar stroke from the pliant cane.