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Scipio sat beside the table -- Mrs. Culloden's still very new, wedding-present table -- arguing on and on, and I forgot all about him. When he slapped the Wyoming game laws for that year down on the table hard, and complained that I was not listening to him, I continued to look out of the ranch window at the pond and merely said: --
"Just hear those ducks."