Old Yeller
“I didn’t think Lisbeth Searcy would be any help around the place. She was too little and too skinny. I figured she’d just be an extra bother for Mama.
But we were wrong. Just like Bud Searcy said, she was a big help. She could tote water from the spring. She could feed the chickens, pack in wood, cook cornbread, wash dishes, wash Little Arliss, and sometimes even change the prickly-pear poultice on my leg.
She didn’t have to be told, either. She was right there on hand all the time, just lookin...g for something to do. She was a lot better about that than I ever was. She wasn’t as big and she couldn’t do as much as I could, but she was more willing.
She didn’t even back off when Mama hooked Jumper to the cart and headed for the field to gather in the corn. That was a job I always hated. It was hot work, and the corn shucks made my skin itch and sting till sometimes I’d wake up at night scratching like I’d stumbled into a patch of bull nettles.
But it didn’t seem to bother Lisbeth.MoreLess
But we were wrong. Just like Bud Searcy said, she was a big help. She could tote water from the spring. She could feed the chickens, pack in wood, cook cornbread, wash dishes, wash Little Arliss, and sometimes even change the prickly-pear poultice on my leg.
She didn’t have to be told, either. She was right there on hand all the time, just lookin...g for something to do. She was a lot better about that than I ever was. She wasn’t as big and she couldn’t do as much as I could, but she was more willing.
She didn’t even back off when Mama hooked Jumper to the cart and headed for the field to gather in the corn. That was a job I always hated. It was hot work, and the corn shucks made my skin itch and sting till sometimes I’d wake up at night scratching like I’d stumbled into a patch of bull nettles.
But it didn’t seem to bother Lisbeth.MoreLess
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