Even in Death (2010)
Even in Death
“AT flaming break of day — day that blazed red across the mottled evergreen, the October chrome and crimson of the great North Woods — a man, naked and bruised, yet whole, sat on a gray, moss-bearded boulder in a sheltered cove by Kamouraska Whirlpool.
To right of him, a fern-spattered cliff. To left, a point densely shagged with spruce and tamarack. Gazing about him, the man smiled.
“Safe, moé!” he muttered. “Dey ain’t nevair find me here. I rest up one day. Hedgehog I catch easy, an’ e...at. To-night, away for Saddleback! One day, two day t’rough Temiscouata woods — den let dem look! I laugh, me! I give dem all ha! ha!”
Beside him on the rock, where the first rays of the rising sun struck them, lay sodden clothes — faded blue overalls and a rough mackinaw.
“Dey dry soon,” said the man. “Now I swim. It will mak’ me strong again. If I only had tabac, one good smoke should fix me.MoreLess
To right of him, a fern-spattered cliff. To left, a point densely shagged with spruce and tamarack. Gazing about him, the man smiled.
“Safe, moé!” he muttered. “Dey ain’t nevair find me here. I rest up one day. Hedgehog I catch easy, an’ e...at. To-night, away for Saddleback! One day, two day t’rough Temiscouata woods — den let dem look! I laugh, me! I give dem all ha! ha!”
Beside him on the rock, where the first rays of the rising sun struck them, lay sodden clothes — faded blue overalls and a rough mackinaw.
“Dey dry soon,” said the man. “Now I swim. It will mak’ me strong again. If I only had tabac, one good smoke should fix me.MoreLess
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