“Mama, please don’t worry about me,” I said. “I’ll be all right. Why, I’ve been all over these hills, you know that.”
“I know,” she said, “but that was in the daytime. I never worried too much when it was daylight,
but at night, that’s different. It’ll be dark and anything could happen.”
There won’t be anything happen,I said.I promise I’ll be careful.
Mama got up from the table saying, “Well, it’s like I said, I can’t say no and I can’t help worrying. I’ll pray every night you’re out.”
The way Mama had me feeling, I didn’t know whether to go hunting or not.
Papa must have sensed how I felt. “It’s dark now,” he said, “and I understand those coons start stirring pretty early.
You had better be going, hadn’t you?” While Mama was bundling me up, Papa lit my lantern.
He handed it to me, saying, “I’d like to see a big coonskin on the smokehouse wall in the morning.”
The whole family followed me out on the porch. There we all got a surprise.
My dogs were sitting on the steps, waiting for me.
I heard Papa laugh. “Why, they know you’re going hunting,” he said, “know it as well as anything.”
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