On The Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck

Author:Richard Peck
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2010-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

That was it. We could go then. Miss Titus said she was going to see us off the property, to make sure. And just so we knew, next time she’d aim lower. She’d put a new part in our haircuts. Out on the porch I had to ask her. “Your mama’s brother. Is he a lot . . . younger?”

“No, he was older,” Miss Titus said. “He was with General Logan’s 31st Illinois Volunteers. The Civil War, of course. She’s worn his letters out, but she’s waiting on him to come home now. It keeps her going.”

From the porch she watched us off the place. The track down to the county road was one rock after another, so we walked our bikes. Then we were pedaling back toward town, the milkweed escaping out of our sacks, silky into the August afternoon.

“I don’t know,” Scooter said. “Maybe we’re giving too much to the war effort.”

He had a point. I kept pedaling. “But it was a swell old automobile.”

“Way too historic for scrap,” said Scooter.

We pedaled across Wyckles Corner without looking both ways. “The trouble with this war,” Scooter said, “is the only people left at home are old as the hills and cranky as Old Nick.”

My dad wasn’t cranky as Old Nick, but how could I say so when his dad was gone? “The cake was good, though,” I said, which Scooter agreed to.

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