but on seeing his tired face and wet clothes, I said, “Papa, you had better go in to the fire.
I’ll take care of the mule, and do the feeding and milking.”
“That would be fine,” he said. After doing the chores, I hurried to the house.
I couldn’t wait any longer. I had to find out what had happened. Walking into the front room, I saw my father had changed clothes.
He was standing in front of the fireplace, drinking coffee.
“Boy, that’s bad weather, isn’t it?” he said. I said it was, and asked him about Rubin.
“We went to the old tree and got Rubin’s body,” Papa said. “We were on our way back to the Pritchards’ when we met them.
They were just this side of their place. They had started to look for him.
Rainie had been so dazed when he got home, they couldn’t make out what he was trying to tell them, but they knew it must have been something bad.
They wanted to know what had happened. I did my best to explain the accident. It hit Old Man Pritchard pretty hard. I felt sorry for him.”
Mama asked how Mrs. Pritchard was taking it. Papa said he didn’t know as he never did get to see any of the womenfolks.
He said they were the funniest bunch he had ever seen. He couldn’t understand them. There wasn’t one tear shed that he could see.
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