Daddy untied ‘em and they leaped down together, sniffin’ before they even landed on the gravel. I dropped to my knees and they all three bounded over to attack my face with rough sloppy tongues. At least I wouldn’t be completely alone. It was one less c***k through my shatterin’ heart. After some first-rate fur huggin’, Daddy grabbed me up. I felt the mist settlin’ on me as he brought his face close to mine. Might have been tears. It was that time.
‘Hennie, my lovely, it’s time for me to travel on. I know you must hate me for this and I don’t fault you for it none. Be a good girl and always remember your Mama and Daddy, and especially your Mama’s lessons. We will all be together again, that I promise.’
It might have been that I was just in a daze from it all, but there wasn’t a word I co
