A Place in Time
“Uncle Peach used the stick he was whittling to mark a level across his nose about an inch above his nostrils.
“You did not,” Wheeler said, but all the same he was laughing. He was seven years old, and sometimes just looking at Uncle Peach made him laugh.
“The hell you did,” said Andrew, who was Wheeler’s brother, five years older, because to Uncle Peach he could say anything he wanted to, and he did. Andrew, as Wheeler understood, was practicing to be a grownup. An ambitionless boy would not sa...y “The hell you did” even to Uncle Peach.
The boys supposed, because everybody else appeared to suppose, that Uncle Peach had been somewhere in the Army during the war with Spain. But they knew from their own observation that Uncle Peach’s shotgun, “Old Deadeye,” was an instrument of mercy to all creatures that ran or flew as well as to some that were sitting still.
The three of them, the two boys and their uncle Peach, who was their mother’s baby brother, were sitting in the shade of the tall cedar tree in front of the house.MoreLess
“You did not,” Wheeler said, but all the same he was laughing. He was seven years old, and sometimes just looking at Uncle Peach made him laugh.
“The hell you did,” said Andrew, who was Wheeler’s brother, five years older, because to Uncle Peach he could say anything he wanted to, and he did. Andrew, as Wheeler understood, was practicing to be a grownup. An ambitionless boy would not sa...y “The hell you did” even to Uncle Peach.
The boys supposed, because everybody else appeared to suppose, that Uncle Peach had been somewhere in the Army during the war with Spain. But they knew from their own observation that Uncle Peach’s shotgun, “Old Deadeye,” was an instrument of mercy to all creatures that ran or flew as well as to some that were sitting still.
The three of them, the two boys and their uncle Peach, who was their mother’s baby brother, were sitting in the shade of the tall cedar tree in front of the house.MoreLess
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