Clearing in the Sky
“This is the way, Jess,” said my father, pointing with his e across the deep valley below us. “I want to show you something!”
“Isn’t it too hot for you to do much walking?” I wiped the streams of sweat from my face to keep them form stinging my eyes.
I didn’t want to go with him. I had just finished walking a half mile uphill from my home to his, carrying a basket of dishes to Mom. I knew how hot it was. I knew also that from January until April my father had goo eight different doctors. And they had all told him not to walk far.
But I couldn’t protest to him now. when he made up his mind to do a thing, he would do it. He didn’t care if it was 100 in the shade or 20 below zero. So I followed him dowtle path between the pasture and the meadow.
Suddenly he stopped, took out his pocketknife, and cut a wisp of alfalfa. He held it up in the sun.
“Look at this, Jess!” he bragged. “Did you ever e better alfalfa grow out the earth?”
“It’s the best-looking hay I’ve ever en.” I said.
Clearing in the Sky
“This is the way, Jess,” said my father, pointing with his e across the deep valley below us. “I want to show you something!”
“Isn’t it too hot for you to do much walking?” I wiped the streams of sweat from my face to keep them form stinging my eyes.
I didn’t want to go with him. I had just finished walking a half mile uphill from my home to his, carrying a basket of dishes to Mom. I knew how hot it was. I knew also that from January until April my father had goo eight different doctors. And they had all told him not to walk far.
But I couldn’t protest to him now. when he made up his mind to do a thing, he would do it. He didn’t care if it was 100 in the shade or 20 below zero. So I followed him dowtle path between the pasture and the meadow.
Suddenly he stopped, took out his pocketknife, and cut a wisp of alfalfa. He held it up in the sun.
“Look at this, Jess!” he bragged. “Did you ever e better alfalfa grow out the earth?”
“It’s the best-looking hay I’ve ever en.” I said.
“When I bought this land everybody said I was crazy,” he bragged again. “It took me thirty years to make it do this!”