He liked to watch the boy with the horses; it had become a keen pleasure. Two milk cows grazed nearby. Dish now rode a fine little mare he called Sugar. Jake, Deets said.
He wasn't dumb, and he didn't pretend that he wanted smiles when he wanted a poke. Boredom, Augustus said. But Jake is not true, he said. It was painful to Newt to have to think of Jake that way.
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