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But the thought quickly passed, the way thoughts tended to pass through Vernon Lynch. And the ocean that seemed so vast when you looked at it off Ray Kendall's dock—why, the oceans of the world were even more vast than he'd imagined. Larch moved slowly in the small room. Peaches refused to go up a ladder; he would load the trailers and pick drops all day.

But to remove this chore from the boy's duties would constitute, Larch felt, a kind of demotion; Homer might suffer a sense of failure. They might get drowned. ' It was, as they say in Maine, a real conversation stopper. als, the rain stopped, the roof of the jungle allowed no sunlight to penetrate to the jungle floor, and the raucou