Visions by Kat Holladay

Author:Kat Holladay [Holladay, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

JENNY

The cabin lay at the very top of the Black Fork Mountains. Most of the mountain folks had always called the woman who now lived there “Jenny”; now that she was living alone, without her Mister. She was not sure that “Jenny” was her real name, but she had been living up on the mountain as long as she could remember and, for some reason, that is what her Mister had always chose to call her.

Looking out the window of her cabin, she could see the three crude headstones, covered in weeds, out among the pines. One was her Mister’s. She often wondered if the other two graves were where her Ma and Pa had been laid to rest? Unfortunately, she could not remember their faces either. She did not think she had been born up on the mountain, but she reckoned that when it was her time and the Good Lord called her home, that she would spend all of eternity here.

Years ago, her “Mister” had told her, he had found her lying in Big Creek, near dead. He was a healer, and it was his duty to bring her up the mountain to his cabin. He had saved her life. Her Mister had always been kind to her; he was not like the other mountain men, with their “Golden Hairs.” When she first came to live with him, he had taught her the healing ways. Now her long, once-blond hair was streaked with wisps of gray. Many of the mountain folks told that she was the oldest of the Golden Hairs. With this nobility, she was held in high regard among the Misters, and every male on the mountain was forbidden to touch her.

After her Mister, had passed, many of the men folk remarked that, for a woman, she had proved to be an excellent healer. And since her Mister had passed, the mountain men would see fit to send their Golden Hairs up to her place at night, to set on her porch big baskets of fresh food and berries for her to eat. Once a week, she would pack her healing pouch and camping provisions, and hike down the mountain to check on all the Golden Hairs. She was not quite sure where all the Golden-Haired girls came from, or how they arrived. Over the years, the only thing she had observed was that every once in a while, one would just appear at one of the mountain men’s cabins. Jenny felt sorry for the girls. While their Misters were not looking, she would try to sneak them food. She was always called if one of the girls became sick. She would be allowed to heal their beaten bodies. Another one of her tasks, the one she enjoyed most, was to serve as a midwife when it was child-bearing time.

She heard old Pete coming up the path, yelping. She loved that darn beast, even if he did try her patience. If he had tangled with

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