skin and a dress that canada snow goose was buttoned halfway down and halfway up. It was mad. A good twenty men leaned in that window, watching. At one point the mother of the little colored girl - not colored, but dark - came in to hold a brief and mournful convocation with her daughter. When I saw that, I was too ashamed to try for the one I really wanted. I let the leech take me off to the back, where, as in a dream, to the din and roar of more loudspeakers inside, we made the bed bounce a half-hour. It was just a square room with wooden slats and no ceiling, ikon in a corner, a washbasin in another. All up and down the dark hall the girls were calling, .Agua, agua caliente!. which means .hot water.. Stan and Dean were also out of sight. My girl charged thi canada snow goose rty pesos, or about three dollars and a half,
from the curb. He drives too fast down Joseph St canada snow goose reet, and turns left, ignoring the sign saying STOP. He heads down Jackson to where it runs obliquely into Central, which is also 422 to Philadelphia. STOP. He doesnt want to go to Philadelphia but the road broadens on the edge of town beyond the electric-power station and the only other choice is to go back through Mt. Judge around the mountain into the thick of Brewer and the supper-time traffic. He doesnt intend ever to see Brewer aga canada snow goose in, that flowerpot city. The highway turns from three-lane to four-lane and there is no danger of hitting another car; they all run along together like sticks on a stream. Rabbit turns on the radio. After a hum a beautiful Negress sings, Without a song, the dahay would nehever end, without a song. Rabbit
You havent left canada snow goose her. Dont be too sure about that. The waiter brings them a plate of sesame cakes. Rabbit takes one tentatively, thinking they will be hard, and is delighted to have it become in his mouth m canada snow goose ild elastic jelly, through the shell of bland seeds. The waiter asks, Gone for good, your friends? Its O.K., Ill pay, Rabbit says. The Chinaman lifts his sunken eyebrows and puckers into a smile and retreats. Youre rich? Ruth asks. No, poor. Are you really going to a hotel? They both take several sesame cakes. There are perhaps twenty on the plate. I guess. Ill tell you about Janice. I never thought of leaving her until the minute I did; all of a sudden it seemed obvious. Shes about five six, sort of dark-complected I dont want to hear about it. Her voice is positive; her many-colored
with a pendulum of four gold balls that are supposed to run practically for ever. Photographs in frames all around. Furniture heavy brown and red except for a long sofa with a scrolling back and arms whose cushions are cream white. The room smells coldly kept. From far off comes the warmer odor of cake baking. She stops in the center of the rug and says, Listen. He stops. The faint bump that he also heard is not repeated. She explains, I thought that brat was asleep. Are you the babysitter? Im the wife, she says, and sits down in the center of the white sof canada snow goose a, to prove it. He takes a padded wing chair opposite. The plum fabric feels softly gritty against his naked forearms. He is wearing a checked sports shirt, with the sleeves turned back to his elbows. Oh, Im sor canada snow goose ry. Of course. Her bare
a glass of water. Just water? With ice? Any way. Any way would be lovely. Yes, Earl is right, she says. People now say how lazy Hassy is, but hes not. He never was. When youd be proud of his basketball in high school you kno canada snow goose w, people would say, ‘Yes well but hes so tall, its easy for him. But they didnt know how he had worked at that. Out back every evening banging the ball way past dark; you wondered how he canada snow goose could see. From about twelve years old on, Angstrom says, he was at that night and day. I put a pole up for him out back; the garage wasnt high enough. When he set his mind to something, Mrs. Angstrom says, there was no stopping him. She yanks powerfully at the lever of the ice-cube tray and with a brilliant multiple crunch that sends chips sparkling the cubes come loose. He wanted to
got this feeling of a straight road ahead of me; before that I was sort of in the bushes and it didnt matter which way I went. Her small canada snow goose face above the coffee cup held in two hands like a soup bowl is perfectly tense with delight; he expects her to laugh and instead she smiles silently. He thinks, Shewantsme. Then he remembers Janice with her legs paralyzed talking about toes and love and orangeade and this perhaps seals shut something in his face, for Lucy Eccles turns her head impatiently and says, Well you better get going down that nice straight road. Its twenty of one. He begins to put on his shoes and socks. How long does it take t canada snow goose o walk to the bus stop? Not long. Id drive you to the hospital if it werent for the children. She listens to the stairs. Speak of the devil: here comes one.
sin canada snow goose ce she came back from the hospital. The thought of fun makes her movements quick and airy; she fairly runs in her bare feet across the gritty carpet back to the window, as if to a show arranged just for her. Mounted in her white gown above everything she can see, she touches her fingers to her tight breast so that the milk starts to leak, stains the white cloth with slow warmth. The wetness slides down her front and turns cold in the air by the window. Her varicose veins ache from standing. She goes and sits in the moldy brown armchair and is si canada snow goose ckened by just the angle at which the mottled wall meets the pasty ceiling. The angle tips her, muddles up and down. The pattern on the wallpaper swarms; the flowers are brown spots that swim in the murk and chase each other and merge hungrily.
corners of his eyes. The asphalt canada snow goose scrapes under his shoes and he seems entered, panting, on a new life. Chilly air strokes his shoulder blades; somewhere in there he split old man Springers shirt right down the back. He has come out of the woods about a half-mile below the Pinnacle Hotel. As he swings along, jauntily hanging his blue coat over his shoulder on the hook of one finger, Janice and Eccles and his mother and his sins seem a thousand miles behind. He decides to call Eccles, like youd send somebody a postcard. Eccles had liked him and put a lot of trust in him and deserves at least a phone call. Rabbit rehearses what hell say.ItsO.K.,hell tell him, Imontheway.Imean,Ithinkthereareseveralways; dontworry.Thanksforeverything.What he wants to get across is that Eccles shouldn canada snow goose t be