My eyes never left my grandfather’s hand. Time after time, it dipped in and out of the candy counter:
peppermint sticks, jawbreakers, horehound, and gumdrops.
The sack bulged. So did my eyes. Handing the sack to me, he said, “Here. First big coon you catch with those dogs, you can pay me back.”
I told him I would. On my way home, with a jawbreaker in one side of my mouth and a piece of horehound in the other,
I skipped and hopped, making half an effort to try to whistle and sing, and couldn’t for the candy.
I had the finest grandpa in the world and I was the happiest boy in the world.
I wanted to share my happiness with my sisters but decided not to say anything about ordering the pups.
Arriving home, I dumped the sack of candy out on the bed.
Six little hands helped themselves. I was well repaid by the love and adoration I saw in the wide blue eyes of my three little sisters.
Chapter - IV
DAY AFTER DAY, I FLEW TO THE STORE, GRANDPA WOULD shake his head.
Then on a Monday, as I entered the store, I sensed a change in him.
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