Upland Autumn by William G. Tapply

Author:William G. Tapply
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

Nowadays, it seems, the southern Maine covers that Keith and I treasure—Hippie House, Stick Farm, and Rusty Bedspring—come up empty, or close to it, all too often. We rarely spot road birds or wallbirds anymore, and few doodles seem to gather in their old favorite parlors.

But at least now, after rambling over dirt roads together for all these years, Keith and I can communicate. Last Saturday, for example, we were feeling pretty bogged down by noontime, so we sat on the ground and leaned our backs against an old stonewall to recharge our batteries. We’d had slim pickins that morning. We’d heard the flush of one sentinel bird, and Burt had bumped a pair of doodles out of their parlor on the sunny side of John’s Knoll, and that was it.

“Well,” observed Keith between bites of his guess-what sandwich and sips of battery acid, “another WGC. All them pickers must’ve been-through by a bunch of jeesly rabbit hunters.”

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