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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Thomas McGuane Reads “Take Half, Leave Half”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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A Man Always Stays Until It Gets Ugly

The cattle were on a grassy table, and in accordance with the old grazing law, take half, leave half and leave the big half. Koi decreed that they had taken their half and ought to be moved to another pasture. Grant thought he could see a line of Brangus earlings on the farthest, highest ridge. He interrupted Rufus: I think they made us. So what? Never was a cow cut out rhino horse, we got them trapped between two oceans. Long story short, I'm sure of that bitch.

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