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Show 31. the ropes he'd sewed on the sack to the table legs and put the baby into the bag.* Sunny said, "Don't seem to mind going back in the sack, even if I did turn him upside down when I picked him up." "I'll make him a cap before next Saturday!" Bill promised, "but right now I'm hungry for the news«T" Men were crowding around the counter now. Dad sat down by the baby. "Go on Bill. I'll sit here awhile." Karl Kunz, an old timer around Blug Burg, had just been up to Johntown and was telling about two brothers Bill knew and liked. "Hosea had this cut on his foot where his pick had cut right through his shoe. It got infected and old Comstock and Hosea's brother, Allen, hot-packed it and thought it was gettin' better-got him well enough to sit outside but then he couldn't chew or swallow nothin*. Comstock said he knew he was a goner so he left. Allen stayed on nursing him alone until he died?" "When did this happen?" Bill asked. "First week in September." "Sure sorry to hear that." Bill shook his head. Never could see why they built their house way up in Gold Canyon-been different if they'd just put up a tent or camped out in |
