In fact I’m worse off. Now I can see when the end comes.”
Little Ann cried again. I saw her claws slip on the ice. Her body settled lower in the water.
Old Dan howled and started fidgeting. He knew the end was close.
I didn’t exactly know when I started out toward my dog.
I had taken only two steps when the ice broke. I twisted my body and fell toward the bank.
Just as my hand closed on a root I thought my feet touched bottom, but I wasn’t sure.
As I pulled myself out I felt the numbing cold creep over my legs.
It looked so hopeless. There didn’t seem to be any way I could save her.
At the edge of the water stood a large sycamore. I got behind it, anything to blot out that heartbreaking scene.
Little Ann, thinking I had deserted her, started crying. I couldn’t stand it.
I opened my mouth to call Old Dan. I wanted to tell him to come on and we’d go home as there was nothing we could do.
The words just wouldn’t come out. I couldn’t utter a sound. I lay my face against the icy cold bark of the sycamore.
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