The Jump-Off Creek
“There were a few days of rain and when the skies cleared it was another season entirely, the days foreshortened and cool, the wind smelling of dirt.
Tim quit the logging camp and on the next Saturday they went over to Oberfield’s. Carroll had a big crew in summer and they cast a pretty wide net: generally they drove in a few steers of just about every brand that ran between the Umatilla River and the Five Points. So Oberfield had got in the habit of asking them all there in the fall, to swap st...eers. This year the several women made up their minds to cook a dinner meal, so it became another social occasion.
Lydia Sanderson came in the high-wheeled wagon with the Walkers, sitting up on the seat beside Mrs. Walker, holding one of the little boys on her lap. Tim let Carroll Oberfield and Blue go over there to hand the women and children down. He had not told her he would be finishing up his cooking job and she would have expected him last Sunday to come for the milk.MoreLess
Tim quit the logging camp and on the next Saturday they went over to Oberfield’s. Carroll had a big crew in summer and they cast a pretty wide net: generally they drove in a few steers of just about every brand that ran between the Umatilla River and the Five Points. So Oberfield had got in the habit of asking them all there in the fall, to swap st...eers. This year the several women made up their minds to cook a dinner meal, so it became another social occasion.
Lydia Sanderson came in the high-wheeled wagon with the Walkers, sitting up on the seat beside Mrs. Walker, holding one of the little boys on her lap. Tim let Carroll Oberfield and Blue go over there to hand the women and children down. He had not told her he would be finishing up his cooking job and she would have expected him last Sunday to come for the milk.MoreLess
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