After a while he said to me, “You don’t have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.” "It doesn't bother me." "No, I （51）__________you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you." I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after （52）__________him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I （53）__________out for a while. It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it （54）__________ as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice. I took the young Irish setter for a little walk （55）__________ the road and along a frozen creek, but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and I （56） __________twice, hard, once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice. We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank （57）__________overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the blank. Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them （58）__________into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush. Coming out while you were poised （59）__________ on the icy, springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many （60）__________ to find on another day.
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