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Your weekly Blood Meridian quota

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This one concerns the treatment of the Chiricauhuas by Captain Glanton and his American scalp-hunters low beneath the border toward Tucson...
Cormac McCarthy wrote:Lashed on behind the cage rode the whiskey keg they'd drained the night before. The keg had been dismantled and rebound by a man Glanton had appointed cooper pro-tem to the expedition and it now contained within it a flask made from a common sheep's stomach and holding perhaps three quarts of whiskey. This flask was fitted to the bung at the inside and the rest of the keg was filled with water.
Next week, Judge Holden explains the alchemy of guano and gunpowder.
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