The wall by Haushofer Marlen 1920-1970

Author:Haushofer, Marlen, 1920-1970 [Haushofer, Marlen, 1920-1970]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA : Cleis Press
Published: 2020-02-02T16:00:00+00:00

I washed myself thoroughly, put fresh wood on the fire and went to bed.

That night I didn’t even feel the cat jumping on to my bed, and awoke only at the light of dawn. My first journey was to the stable. Heart beating,

I drew back the bolt. Bella was busy licking her son’s nose, and I heaved a sigh of relief at the sight of that. He was already standing solidly on his powerful legs, and I led him to his mother and pressed his mouth against her udder. He understood straight away and drank his fill. Bella shifted from one leg to the other when he bumped into her body with his round head. When he had had enough I milked Bella dry. The milk was yellow and fatty and I didn’t like the taste of it. Bella now looked a little haggard and anxious, but I knew that would pass if she was well looked after. I could read in her soft, shining eyes that she was bathed in warm delight. I felt quite strange, and had to escape from the stable.

The foehn was still blowing, and the weather stayed windy and rainy. Later a moist blue sky broke through the flying clouds, and black shadows flitted across the clearing. I felt nervous and tense. The cat looked electric. Her hair stood on end and sparked when I ran my hand over it. She was unsettled, and followed me about, complaining, bored her hot, dry nose into the palm of my hand and refused to eat anything. I was afraid that some unknown feline disease had struck her, when I suddenly realized that she was calling for a tom-cat. She went into the forest hundreds of times, came back again and showered me with pitiful caresses. Even Lynx, who was hardly aware of th e foehn, was infected by her agitation and ran helplessly around the house. At night I was awoken by a strange animal crying in the forest: Ka-au, ka-au. It sounded a little like a tom-cat, but it wasn’t

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