Cactus Flower
“In fact, many of the citizens seem determined to bring civilization to the place (Obut don’t worry. It won’t happen soon). I understand the civic leaders even put on a town barbecue supper once a year, to celebrate the town’s founding, although God alone knows why anyone would wish to celebrate the establishment of such a barren, desolate community.
Some of the natives are rather nice, however, and I am now renting a room from a very kind widow lady named Mrs. Louise Johnson, who has five... children. It’s a rather noisy house, but it will do for now. When you are well enough to come out, I will be sure we have a place of our own to stay. The people who live here build houses and so forth out of mud bricks, rather like the ancient Egyptians used to do, only these local bricks are called adobe, which is, I believe, a Spanish word meaning mud brick.
There is a fort nearby, and several soldiers come to town quite often. I have considered one of them, Lieutenant Gabriel Fuller, as a possible protector, if it comes to that, although there’s another man in town who might fill the bill slightly better, except that he’s rather a brute.MoreLess
Some of the natives are rather nice, however, and I am now renting a room from a very kind widow lady named Mrs. Louise Johnson, who has five... children. It’s a rather noisy house, but it will do for now. When you are well enough to come out, I will be sure we have a place of our own to stay. The people who live here build houses and so forth out of mud bricks, rather like the ancient Egyptians used to do, only these local bricks are called adobe, which is, I believe, a Spanish word meaning mud brick.
There is a fort nearby, and several soldiers come to town quite often. I have considered one of them, Lieutenant Gabriel Fuller, as a possible protector, if it comes to that, although there’s another man in town who might fill the bill slightly better, except that he’s rather a brute.MoreLess
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