Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill

Author:Kirkpatrick Hill [Hill, Kirkpatrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Ages 8 & Up
ISBN: 9780805098945
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: 2013-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Olaf had found Shine with his wing torn half off. “Maybe a fox, maybe a hawk hurt him,” Olaf said. He didn’t know how old Shine was, but he thought he must be young because he had healed so easily. Olaf put ointment on what was left of the torn wing, and it healed into a sort of wing stump.

Shine couldn’t fly anymore, but he could hop marvelously high, straight up. “Like he has springs in his legs,” Olaf said. He’d hop on the braces for the winch, peer into the shaft, and call out to Olaf when he was down there digging.

“Ravens can nearly talk, you know,” Olaf said. “They have a lot of different calls. I never counted them properly, but I figure it’s about twenty different calls. This one now, Shine, he don’t use all of them, because he don’t have a normal raven life. Sometimes other ravens fly over, sit in the spruce trees there, and call out to him. Sometimes he answers and sometimes not.”

“I like the sound they make that’s like knocking on wood,” said Bo. “The one that sounds like bonk, bonk, bonk. What does that one mean?”

“I like that one too,” said Olaf. “But Shine doesn’t make it, and I never figured what it means. Someday I’m going to find me a book tells all about ravens.”

“Don’t need a book,” said Big Annie. “You ask my father. He knows all the raven calls. The old Eskimos learned them good.”

Olaf looked surprised at Annie.

“Ravens talk to Unakserak,” she said.

“By god, I’ll do that,” Olaf said in a thoughtful way. “I’ll ask Unakserak.”

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