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Show last January at K Mart in Pocatello, and at first she hadn't wanted to spend all her savings from potato harvest on a 'luxury item', as her mother called it. But now she was glad she had splurged, because it would be her one link with home while she was away. As her mother was backing the car out of the driveway, Woogie jumped and barked like a frantically at the car tires. It was all Kim could do to keep from opening the car door, and reaching out to grab him into her arms. Her mother tossed her steel grey head over her shoulder as she glanced out the rear view mirror. "Don't worry about Woogie," she said. "He'll be fine. Laura will take good care of him until I get back." Laura was Kim's best friend, and lived just next doer to her, so it would easy for Laura to come through the back gate and feed Woogie every night. "But Laura's in school all day,"said Kim. "And her mother is allergic to dogs." "I'll only be gone three days," said Mrs. Long. Her mother's words hardly soothed her. It was five months before she'd be home and it was she, not her mother, who Woogie was attached to. Unable to bear Woogie's pleading any longer, Kim shut her eyes tightly until the station wagon was almost onto Center Street and safely out of sight of the plain white farm house. The house was located on Archer Road, a short, unpaved street lined with billowy Elm trees which horseshoed over |
