A wolverine is eating my leg by Tim Cahill

Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: American, Adventure stories
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books
Published: 1989-10-22T22:00:00+00:00

The cable was dragged over the ice and fixed to the crane, which strained against the weight of the twenty-six-thousand-pound grader. The cable sawed a line through the ice, and when the grader was close enough to shore, volunteer labor from the community cut huge blocks of ice and pulled them up with tongs. When the hole was large enough, they pulled the grader out of the lake. It came up front-end first, then twisted ponderously on its back wheels. Blue-black lake mud dripped from it, like some monstrous and alien thing.

The owner of the grader, Fred Drew, of D&D Logging, stopped into Barney's and sat down with Copenhaver and me. He was a short, compact, tired-looking man. A few days ago an anonymous caller had asked him why he had "ordered" Kelley out onto the ice. Drew wasn't angry, just saddened, and it showed clearly in his eyes.

"I didn't order Mike to do anything," Drew said. "He was in charge of the heavy machinery. He told me he was going to take the grader out, and I told him to use his own discretion." Drew turned to Copenhaver. "That was my Cat you went down in. Do you think I wanted another one down?" The proprietor, Barney Bowles, a longtime friend of Kel-ley's, sat down with us.

"Was Mike being paid to plow the ice?" I asked. Barney laughed, and Drew quietly said, "No, of course not."

"What then? Was he a snowmobile enthusiast?" "He didn't own one," Drew said. Barney added, "He was a community enthusiast."

Barney explained it like this: In the winter, the population of Seeley Lake runs around one thousand. In the summer, vacationers swell that number to as much as ten thousand. People like Barney, and many others in Seeley Lake, make most of their money from tourists and local recreation seekers. The winter had been especially severe,

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