p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" strongLaurey/strong/span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" Laurey wandered through the fair, more excited at her independence than the fair itself. She wanted to see everything first, then decide on which rides and attractions she wanted to spend time at. Her plans of being methodical evaporated, however, when she heard distinctively masculine, whooping yells by one of the tents. Curious, she wandered to the source of the novel sound. The people she spent the most time with were Aunt Eller and Ado Annie, and the idea of Jud's whooping at anything was class="Apple-converted-space" /span/span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" She found her way to the tent, and took advantage of her small stature to elbow her way to the front of the crowd. She immediately saw the reason for the excitement, as a man was thrown from a horse, landing on his shoulder. Wincing in pain, the man got up and staggered off. He was quickly replaced by another cowboy, one who stood up straighter than the rest, mounted the horse with a self-assuredness the others seemed to class="Apple-converted-space" /span/span/p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" He remained graceful, even on the bucking bronc, never letting his smile falter, as though the cheers from the crowd counter-balanced any discomfort from the violently rollicking horse. Laurey found herself gasping and grinning along with the rest of the crowd, as he remained on the bronc far longer than any person should have./span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" Finally, the horse became too agitated for him, or his attention faltered for a moment, and he was thrown, rolling just a few feet from where Laurey stood. The horse was quickly tethered, and Laurey instinctively stepped towards him. She stopped, however, once she saw a group of men race over and help him up. His smile unfailing, he laughed as the men helped him to his feet, and even made them laugh with some joke she couldn't hear. Laurey stepped back to join the rest of the crowd, knowing that whatever small amount of comfort she could offer wouldn't be welcome, not when he had so many friends to help class="Apple-converted-space" /span/span/p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" She slipped back through the crowd, into the open air, before she inevitably saw his sweetheart race to his aid. Any man that confident and handsome was bound to have some pretty, well-dressed girl who'd resent Laurey's class="Apple-converted-space" /span/span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" Running her fingers through her hair, she walked away from the tent, ready for a new excitement to take her mind off that boy. There was a reason farm girls and cowmen didn't court each other much. Cowmen were away too often, too adventurous to be tied down to one place and one woman; didn't belong to the land the way girls did. She couldn't imagine such a nomadic life for herself, nor would she want to tie someone down who had to be free. A girl like Ado Annie would probably enjoy a short little spree with a man who wore chaps, but Laurey knew she needed someone reliable, someone who loved the farm as much as she did, someone kinda like… /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" strongLaurey/strong/span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" Laurey wandered through the fair, more excited at her independence than the fair itself. She wanted to see everything first, then decide on which rides and attractions she wanted to spend time at. Her plans of being methodical evaporated, however, when she heard distinctively masculine, whooping yells by one of the tents. Curious, she wandered to the source of the novel sound. The people she spent the most time with were Aunt Eller and Ado Annie, and the idea of Jud's whooping at anything was class="Apple-converted-space" /span/span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" She found her way to the tent, and took advantage of her small stature to elbow her way to the front of the crowd. She immediately saw the reason for the excitement, as a man was thrown from a horse, landing on his shoulder. Wincing in pain, the man got up and staggered off. He was quickly replaced by another cowboy, one who stood up straighter than the rest, mounted the horse with a self-assuredness the others seemed to class="Apple-converted-space" /span/span/p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" He remained graceful, even on the bucking bronc, never letting his smile falter, as though the cheers from the crowd counter-balanced any discomfort from the violently rollicking horse. Laurey found herself gasping and grinning along with the rest of the crowd, as he remained on the bronc far longer than any person should have./span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" Finally, the horse became too agitated for him, or his attention faltered for a moment, and he was thrown, rolling just a few feet from where Laurey stood. The horse was quickly tethered, and Laurey instinctively stepped towards him. She stopped, however, once she saw a group of men race over and help him up. His smile unfailing, he laughed as the men helped him to his feet, and even made them laugh with some joke she couldn't hear. Laurey stepped back to join the rest of the crowd, knowing that whatever small amount of comfort she could offer wouldn't be welcome, not when he had so many friends to help class="Apple-converted-space" /span/span/p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" She slipped back through the crowd, into the open air, before she inevitably saw his sweetheart race to his aid. Any man that confident and handsome was bound to have some pretty, well-dressed girl who'd resent Laurey's class="Apple-converted-space" /span/span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" /p
p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia;"span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;" Running her fingers through her hair, she walked away from the tent, ready for a new excitement to take her mind off that boy. There was a reason farm girls and cowmen didn't court each other much. Cowmen were away too often, too adventurous to be tied down to one place and one woman; didn't belong to the land the way girls did. She couldn't imagine such a nomadic life for herself, nor would she want to tie someone down who had to be free. A girl like Ado Annie would probably enjoy a short little spree with a man who wore chaps, but Laurey knew she needed someone reliable, someone who loved the farm as much as she did, someone kinda like… /span/p