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highway he would always softly refuse. “Rather walk, thanks.” It was eight miles to and from Flint Hill. Right up to the end, he would ride his horse or walk there, occasionally to buy groceries at Bradford’s store. The horseback riding and the walking and his farm chores helped keep him healthy, but several months ago he suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized.
PRACTICALLY the moment he
got out of the hospital and back home, he got back on old friend, the old white horse. The doctors warned him to stay home, to be quiet, not to exert himself, but to no avail. A habit of 50 years is hard to break.
Allie was a man of the earth, of the sun and sky, and he was
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