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Casey Ryan

CHAPTER XVII
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She screamed at him in English, in Piute, and chose words in each that no princess should employ to express her emotions.

Her loud denunciations followed Casey to the tepee, where he stopped and offered his services to Hahnaga as undertaker.
She accepted stolidly and together they buried Injun Jim, using his best blanket and not much ceremony.

Casey did not know the Piute customs well enough to follow them, and his version of the white man's funeral service was simple in the extreme.

Hahnaga, however, brought two bottles of pickles and one jar of preserves which had outlasted Injun Jim's appetite, and put them in the grave with him, together with his knife and an old rifle and his pipe.
To dig a grave and afterwards heap the dirt symmetrically over a discarded body takes a little time, no matter how cursory is the proceeding.

Casey ceased to hear Lucy Lily's raucous voice and so thought that she had settled down.


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