The Shunning (2010)
The Shunning
“Eli and Benjamin were prepping the herd for the morning milking, but Dat was nowhere to be seen.
“He’s out runnin’ an errand,” Eli replied nonchalantly when she asked.
“This early?”
“He left about four-thirty,” Benjamin volunteered. “I heard him out hitchin’ up Daisy before we ever got up.”
Katie went about her chores without saying more. She fed the chickens and pitched hay to the draft horses and her pony, Satin Boy, then to Zeke and Molasses—the older driving horses—and last, to the mules, w...ondering if her father was, even now, reporting her wayward behavior to Bishop John.
I should have talked with Dat last night—even if I’d had to wake him! she thought. Groaning inwardly, Katie headed for the milk house.
Ben was leaning over to get some fresh, raw milk from the Sput-nick, a small stainless-steel mobile contraption used instead of milk cans to take milk from the cow to the large refrigerated bulk tank, its power supply coming from a unique twelve-volt motor attached to a battery.MoreLess
“He’s out runnin’ an errand,” Eli replied nonchalantly when she asked.
“This early?”
“He left about four-thirty,” Benjamin volunteered. “I heard him out hitchin’ up Daisy before we ever got up.”
Katie went about her chores without saying more. She fed the chickens and pitched hay to the draft horses and her pony, Satin Boy, then to Zeke and Molasses—the older driving horses—and last, to the mules, w...ondering if her father was, even now, reporting her wayward behavior to Bishop John.
I should have talked with Dat last night—even if I’d had to wake him! she thought. Groaning inwardly, Katie headed for the milk house.
Ben was leaning over to get some fresh, raw milk from the Sput-nick, a small stainless-steel mobile contraption used instead of milk cans to take milk from the cow to the large refrigerated bulk tank, its power supply coming from a unique twelve-volt motor attached to a battery.MoreLess
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