The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck

Author:Richard Peck
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2004-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

When Tansy saw herself called handsome in print, her hand stole up to her back hair.

Outrage etched Aunt Maud’s face at anybody blaring our personal business to the listening world. “How’d they know we were coming from a funeral anyhow?”

“The way we were dressed on a Thursday,” Tansy said in a far-off voice, dreamlike. “Your veil. My hat.”

“Well, they got that right about me being flung a considerable distance,” Aunt Maud maintained. “I was in the air long enough to see my whole life pass before me.”

Dad grinned. “That young go-getter Eugene Hammond is behind this story,” he said. “You can see him on every line. He hand-fed each word to the Courier. He’ll go far, that fellow. This is better advertising for his company and himself than you can pay out money for.”

Aunt Maud couldn’t pull her eyes off the page. Still, her chin wagged. “I didn’t expect to see my name in the paper till my obituary on the day they put me in the ground!”

“And you might not see it then,” Dad remarked mildly.

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