The Barefoot Sisters Southbound by Lucy Letcher

Author:Lucy Letcher [Letcher, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-8117-4013-5
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2009-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

We hiked on in high spirits, joking about Lash and Black Forest’s Maryland Challenge attempt and making bets as to when they would catch up with us. About a mile down the trail, we reached Antietam Shelter to find that it, too, was occupied. Heald and Mohawk Joe, the rough-looking guys we had met in Boiling Springs, sat side by side at the front of the sleeping platform. Mohawk Joe had an open beer in each hand, and Heald was swigging the last few mouthfuls from a bourbon bottle. His red dog Annie thrashed her way across the clearing to greet us, grinning her toothy grin.

“Hey, guys! Where’s the bar?” jackrabbit asked.

“Righ’ here,” said Mohawk Joe. “Drop your packs an’ join us.”

“Joe and me hitched into town last night,” Heald explained. In spite of the now-empty bottle in his hand, he looked up at us with a clear and level gaze. “Got ourselves some drink. Here, have a beer.” He pulled two cartons of beer out of a shaded corner of the shelter.

Jackrabbit’s eyes widened. “That’s a lot of beer. Are you guys planning to finish it?”

Heald shook his head. “I’m about ready to hike on, myself. I’m out of bourbon, and I don’t drink that other shit. Joe’s going to stay here and finish it. Unless you girls want to help him out.”

“Help me,” Mohawk Joe said. He took a full bottle of brandy out of the corner where the beer had been and waved it in our direction. “You gotta help me. Have summa this. Iss the best.”

Jackrabbit shook her head. “Thanks for the offer, but we’d better not. We can’t drink and hike barefoot.”

“Take some with you,” Mohawk Joe offered. “Drink it tonight. I got plenty.”

I glanced at jackrabbit. “Sure. That’d be a treat. Thank you.” While Heald hefted his pack and walked away down the trail, Mohawk Joe poured half the brandy into my spare Nalgene.

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