And besides, you never had no fun in your life. Roscoe was glad he hadn't had to go with the other men. His stomach began to float higher than he was. Without saying a word, Augustus walked over, took off his clothes, and had a long bath in the little stream.
Thinking of it in terms of months proved more comforting than thinking of it in terms of miles, so Pea tried that for a while. The night he heard she was dead he left the town without a word to anyone and node up the river alone for a week. He didn't move to kiss her, but he still stood close and looked into her face. True to her word, Louisa served up a meal of corn bread, washed down with well water.
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