“The hell with the rabbits. An’ you ain’t to be trusted with no live mice;
Your Aunt Clara give you a rubber mouse and you wouldn’t have nothing to do with it.” “It wasn’t no good to pet,” said Lennie.
The flame of the sunset lifted from the mountain-tops and dusk came into the valley, and a half darkness came in among the willows and the sycamores.
A big carp rose to the surface of the pool, gulped air and then sank mysteriously into the dark water again, leaving widening rings on the water.
Overhead the leaves whisked again and little puffs of willow cotton blew down and landed on the pool’s surface,
“You gonna get that wood?” George demanded. “There’s plenty right up against the back of that sycamore. Floodwater wood. Now you get it.”
Lennie went behind the tree and brought out a litter of dried leaves and twigs.
He threw them in a heap on the old ash pile and went back for more and more. It was almost night now.
A dove’s wings whistled over the water. George walked to the fire pile and lighted the dry leaves.
The flame cracked up among the twigs and fell to work. George undid his bindle and brought out three cans of beans.
He stood them about the fire, close in against the blaze, but not quite touching the flame.
“There’s enough beans for four men,” George said. Lennie watched him from over the fire.
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