Clearing the bridge on the opposite side is the little Mexican Boy, again on his swayback horse, riding along the muddy bank.

A few battered cars waited on the strip of pavement fronting the rectangle, like swayback horses tied outside a saloon.

All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse.

He was looking at Dish, but Dish had no intention of revealing Lorena's whereabouts to an ugly little cowboy on a swaybacked horse.

Behind the cabin was an even more slovenly looking structure that must be a barn, beside which stood three swaybacked horses in a fenced enclosure.