Liz Ireland
“All three of them agreed that it was an appropriate setting for his final sleep, for if there was anything that Oat enjoyed more than his old route, it was finding a cool shady place to take a long snooze.
They all did their best to make the service memorable, reciting what prayers they knew by heart and singing one of the many hymns they had learned from years of Dwight’s serenading them from the mercantile. In eulogy, none of them forgot to mention to God that they owed their lives to the gru...ff old man, to whom no one had given much consideration before he’d married Mary Ann Redfern.
“I guess I’ve seen Oat Murphy most every week of my life since I moved to Texas with my Daddy,” Paulie said, shaking her head. “You might say I took him for granted, even. When he married Mary Ann and gave up his route, I realized how much I depended on him. Then, when he decided to go along with us to find Mary Ann, I came to like him, like an old uncle you might say. Oat couldn’t have been feeling well these last few days, and Lord knows we were all scared, but he never once complained.”MoreLess
They all did their best to make the service memorable, reciting what prayers they knew by heart and singing one of the many hymns they had learned from years of Dwight’s serenading them from the mercantile. In eulogy, none of them forgot to mention to God that they owed their lives to the gru...ff old man, to whom no one had given much consideration before he’d married Mary Ann Redfern.
“I guess I’ve seen Oat Murphy most every week of my life since I moved to Texas with my Daddy,” Paulie said, shaking her head. “You might say I took him for granted, even. When he married Mary Ann and gave up his route, I realized how much I depended on him. Then, when he decided to go along with us to find Mary Ann, I came to like him, like an old uncle you might say. Oat couldn’t have been feeling well these last few days, and Lord knows we were all scared, but he never once complained.”MoreLess
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