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couldn’t explain the feeling, but there

was a thrill that ran through me as I

watched him, and Cashmere seemed

friendlier to me every day.

The second weekend after he had

arrived, after I had taken care of the

other horses, I loaded up a little grain

and some fencing tools and headed

over to the pasture. Cashmere and

Tor were grazing side by side as if

they were best friends. A person

wouldn’t have any reason to think

they had ever fought at all. The

mares, for their part, just acted like

Cashmere was another horse, and he

seemed to like it that way.

As soon as I pulled up, the horses

came running, with Cashmere at the

lead. I poured out the grain,

spreading it out so everybody could

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