Prairie Rose
“But when she saw where she was to spend her summer nights, her spirits flagged. The barn smelled to high heaven. What little hay was left over from winter had grown stiff and moldy. Three milk cows and the mules used the barn for shelter. The chickens roosted in its rafters. And as she climbed the rickety ladder into the loft, Rosie gasped and stiffened in shock. On the moonlit barn floor below her, a five-foot-long blacksnake slithered out from under a tuft of loose hay and disappeared behind a wagon wheel.“Don’t worry about that fellow,” Seth called up. “He’s not poisonous. He keeps the barn cleaned up for me—eats mice.”Wonderful, Rosie thought. How comforting.“Are you all right up there?” Seth asked.Rosie looked over the edge of the shaky platform. “What about grizzly bears?”“We don’t see them around much. They follow the buffalo.”“Wolves?”“Same.” He shoved his hands into his pockets. “Would you like to keep my rifle on hand?”Rosie shook her head.
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