I held my breath and watched the house. No one came out.
I glared at Old Dan. He wagged his tail, and just to show off, he sat down on his rear and started digging at a flea with his hind leg.
The way his leg was thumping in the leaves, anyone could have heard it for a mile.
I waited until he quit thumping before starting on.
Reaching the bottom, I had about twenty yards of clearing to cross, but the grass and bushes were pretty thick.
Laying down on my stomach, with my heart beating like a trip hammer, I wiggled my way to Rubin’s grave.
I laid the flowers on the fresh mound of earth, and then turned around and scooted for the timber.
Just as we reached the mountaintop, my foot slipped and I kicked loose a large rock.
Down the side of the mountain it rolled. This time the blue tick hound heard the noise.
He came out from under the house bawling. I heard a door slam and Mrs. Pritchard came out.
She stood looking this way and that way. The hound ran up to the graveyard and started sniffing and bawling.
Mrs. Pritchard followed him. Seeing the flowers on Rubin’s grave, she picked them up and looked at them.
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