Macadoo of the Maury River by Gigi Amateau

Author:Gigi Amateau [Amateau, Gigi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7636-5661-4
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

One Saturday morning in September, Izzy hurried out to our field carrying his pencils and binoculars well before Molly and Poppa left for Tamworth Springs to help train the new hunting pups. I desperately wanted to go with them and whinnied loud and often to make my wishes clear.

I could always tell when Poppa and Molly were going to hunt. Even before the season officially opened, Poppa wore his hunting jacket and best riding pants and shined his tall boots whenever the club would ride out to check fences, set courses, or practice with the pack.

Izzy gave Job and me our breakfast in the field and promised to bring us inside if the day turned too hot. Job had never liked hunting and as old as Molly was then she loved to ride out with Poppa to see her friends at Tamworth Springs. The boy sat in his usual spot on the great granite slab at the top of our paddock. He wrote furiously, the read:

“September fifteenth, eight a.m., Cedarmont Farm, Buena Vista, Virginia. Eighty degrees by the barn, approximately. Mild day, cruel drought. Oak gone to seed, acorns everywhere, dogwood brittle. Pond nearly dry, no frogs seen or heard. Job and Mac drank all their water last night. They’re grazing together. A beautiful day, but rain, rain, rain would make today perfect.

Butterflies I’ve already seen this a.m.:

Spicebush swallowtail rested on mac’s torn ear for a while

Pipevine swallowtail

Lots of coppers, a few monarchs, too

Yellow swallowtail that i think may be a female spicebush of the yellow variety because she’s getting lots of attention from the black one.”

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