A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley

Author:Walter Mosley
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

DADDY, Frenchie’s sick.”

She was standing there in her orange dress, the one that had four big white buttons down the front. Bleary light reflected on the mirror of my dresser. That meant it was late in the morning.

“Feather, what are you doing here? Why aren’t you at school?”

“Frenchie’s sick,” she said patiently. “I stayed home to take care of him.”

“Where’s Juice?”

“He gone to school. He said that I was gonna be in trouble.” She looked at me with slightly enlarged eyes. “But I told him that Frenchie was sick an’ he needed me to pat him and take his tempachur.”

I was seeing the woman in the child just beginning to flex her muscles. I was sick at heart but I could still smile at the beauty of Feather and her power to love.

“I’ll take care’a the dog, honey,” I said. “You go put together your lunch and I’ll take you to school.”

Pharaoh was moping by the front door. His tiny rat chin rested on slender yellow paws. He looked up at me and tried to growl but the snarl turned into a whimper and he put his head back down.

I had on my painter’s pants, a cross-hatched-red-and-blue flannel shirt, and thick work shoes. I would be unshaven and unbathed that day. I was coming back to the old ways and feeling mean.

It wasn’t far to Burnside Elementary School.

“What happened to the window, Daddy?”

I walked Feather into school and explained, vaguely, that I’d had to keep her home that morning. Nobody seemed to mind.

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