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"FAMOUS SHOES don't like these snow owls-that's four we've seen now," Augustus said. "He thinks it means the world's coming to an end."
"They're just birds," Call said, impatiently. They were in the driest country he had been in since he had been marched as a prisoner across the Jornada del Muerto many years before, a trip that Augustus also had made and survived. This time they were in pursuit of a dangerous man, and had their horses to think of. Finding water for them and their horses was what Famous Shoes ought to be thinking about-water, not the fact that a few snow owls from the north had decided to linger in Texas.