Falling From Horses by Molly Gloss

Author:Molly Gloss
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

FOUR

ECHOL CREEK

1926–1934

WHEN BUD WAS A BABY, back in Elwha County, Henry had made a blanket-lined box with wire hangers to hook on the top rail of the corral so Martha could keep an eye on the baby and keep him out from underfoot while she worked with her horses. And when she was riding to help Henry at roundup or hauling salt to the pastures, she put the baby in a papoose contraption slung from the saddle horn; later she just rode Bud on the saddle in front of her, buttoned inside her coat. When the boy was old enough to listen and mind what he was told, they laid some logs on the ground in a big square near where they were haying or building fence, set him down inside the logs, and told him, “Don’t get out,” which worked pretty well. They gave him a stick for digging in the dirt and a bucket of water, and he spent his time making and destroying little rivers and dams and ponds.

Mary Claudine, who was born on the Echol ranch, was a different sort of child, more given to mischief. Some of the methods they’d used with Bud worked for a while, and later they put him in charge of watching the baby—and then became more liberal in their definition of mischief.

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