Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx

Author:Annie Proulx
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2008-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Helen put Mercurochrome on his blisters and bandaged his raw feet.

“I can’t understand why you quit that way,” she said. “What are we goin to do now?”

“Get out a this hellhole. Far as Fenk’s concerned I’m sagebrushed for good. Wasn’t makin enough to do much for the bank anyways. You might as well know they are takin the place. Move up to Rock Springs or Superior. We’ll rent. I’ll get a job in the coal mines. That’s steady money and I won’t have to shoot anybody in the guts.” He told her about Fenk’s ways with wild horses.

“The poor things,” she said, for Helen had a tender heart. “I guess Fenk has got a mean streak.”

“It’s the money, I suppose. He’s one will do anything to get it. You ought to see how he’s wrecked the new car. Figures he can get another one easy.”

“Maybe he can,” said Helen. Fenk seemed to her now a cruel monster. She vowed never to speak to him again.

They were not hiring at Superior but he found work at the Union Pacific mines in Rock Springs. Even though the company house was more of a shack Helen liked the conveniences of town—electricity, running water. The kids could walk to school. There were plenty of people around, gossip and talk, a social life, handy food supplies. That pleasure sagged when little Riffie got sick with polio and had to be put in an iron lung. The doctor told Helen that it was living in town and going to school with other children that had caused it, that polio was contagious, and that in their old homestead out on the edge of the desert the child would likely have remained free of the affliction. Helen hated the doctor, not the town.

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