When I Crossed No-Bob by Margaret McMullan

Author:Margaret McMullan [McMullan, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This is what always happens—every Saturday the men meet up, stand around, drink, spit, and insult one another until the fighting starts.

I give Pappy his fiddle. He looks at his knife in one hand and the fiddle in his other.

"Go on and play something, Pappy," I say.

Pappy starts to play.

Late that night I am half-asleep, listening to the slow, low talk of Smasher and the other O'Donnell men around the burning and crackling fire, Pappy sharpening his knife with a rock he always carries in his pocket.

I listen to them recounting Pappy's exploits, how he used to fight so long and so hard that the fighters had to stop and use a pocketknife to pick the knuckle skin from between their teeth, how Pappy tied up that man to a plow as though he were a mule and made him plow a field.

"Wadn't that man your brother Garner?"

And they all laugh even harder.

Somebody says something that sounds like Addy knows too much. Then I hear Pappy say, "Addy?"—not to me but about me.

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