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Jake, you're a dern grasshopper,- Augustus said. -œYou ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.

Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper,- Augustus said. -œYou ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you’re talking California.
– Larry McMurtry

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