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He often went to buy tools with which to repair the ranch house, but he also passed the time of day chatting with the gardener, or with the keepers of the general store and the hardware store, whose livelihoods he diminished day by day, as he lengthened the accounts he had with each of them.
NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho
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It will probably take until the second anniversary of the storm to repair all the damage to our house.
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With the money the cook had brought, he paid his debts and hired a pair of gauchos to repair the roof of the ranch house, which was falling in.
NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho