Zeke And Ned (1997)
“TUXIE AIN’T GOING ON ANY LENGTHY ERRANDS,” DALE MILLER said firmly, when Ned showed up to ask if Tuxie would go fetch Becca Proctor to her husband’s bedside.
That was the response Ned had expected, but it annoyed him anyway. The most annoying thing about it was that Tuxie himself merely sat there, not even trying to pretend he was the boss of his household—Tuxie just looked at Dale, and smiled.
Ned himself would have loved to give Dale Miller a good shaking, but she was Tuxie’s wife, not his.
“...Dale, I just come from there, only I didn’t know Zeke was sick,” he said. “Why can’t Tuxie go fetch her?”
“Because Davie Beck might drop out of another tree and saw his other leg,” Dale said. “I ain’t risking it, Ned, and that’s that!”
Tuxie was friend enough to loan him a fresh horse, at least, though it did little to improve Ned’s mood. While he was saddling up, he could not restrain himself from complaining to Tuxie about Dale’s high-handed behaviour.
“Why, you’re no better than a slave, Tuxie,”MoreLess
That was the response Ned had expected, but it annoyed him anyway. The most annoying thing about it was that Tuxie himself merely sat there, not even trying to pretend he was the boss of his household—Tuxie just looked at Dale, and smiled.
Ned himself would have loved to give Dale Miller a good shaking, but she was Tuxie’s wife, not his.
“...Dale, I just come from there, only I didn’t know Zeke was sick,” he said. “Why can’t Tuxie go fetch her?”
“Because Davie Beck might drop out of another tree and saw his other leg,” Dale said. “I ain’t risking it, Ned, and that’s that!”
Tuxie was friend enough to loan him a fresh horse, at least, though it did little to improve Ned’s mood. While he was saddling up, he could not restrain himself from complaining to Tuxie about Dale’s high-handed behaviour.
“Why, you’re no better than a slave, Tuxie,”MoreLess
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