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Updated: May 13, 2025
Tish watched her out. Then she sat down and rolled eleven cigarettes for Charlie Sands, one after the other. At last she spoke. "I'm not sure," she said tartly, "that if I had it to do over again I'd do it. That woman's not a Christian. I was thinking," she went on, "of giving them a part of the reward to go to Asbury Park with.
"I guess I'll stay," he agreed. "What about that rabbit?" I did not know Tish's plan at that time, and while Aggie was feeding the Willoughby person and he was grumbling over his food, I took Tish aside. "Are you crazy?" I demanded. "Just through your idiocy Percy will have to stay in that tree all night and he'll go to sleep, likely, and fall out." Tish eyed me coldly.
She said we could get everything we needed at the park entrance, and that the riding was merely sitting in a saddle and letting the pony do the rest. But on the 21st of June, the anniversary of the day Aggie was to have been married, we went out to decorate Mr. Wiggins's last resting-place, and coming out of the cemetery we met Tish. She was on a horse, astride! She was not alone.
He drove slowly, looking back every now and then, and his last view of us must have been impressive three middle-aged and determined women ready to conquer the wilderness, as Tish put it, and two suitcases. It was as solitary a place as we could have wished.
Even then we realized that his restraint of speech was a pose, pure and simple. "If you make him angry he'll tear up the whole place." But Tish did not deign to answer. The rain had ceased, and suddenly the moon came out and illuminated the whole scene. We saw the bear sniffing at the ham, which lay on the ground. Then he picked it up in his jaws and stood looking about.
"You've been drinking!" said Tish shortly. After that he let her alone, but soon after he turned round to me and made another venture. "In case you need grub, lady," he said," and them two suitcases don't hold a lot, I'll bring out anything you say: eggs and butter and garden truck at market prices.
"You know, pumice would be better for that, but somehow I don't like the idea." "Nothing of the sort," said Tish. "The double clamshell merely forms a pair of Indian nippers. I'm going to pull it out." But he made quite a fuss about it, and said he didn't care whether the Indians did it or not, he wouldn't.
Tish said if it was the bear he would be afraid of the fire, so we put dry leaves in the kettle and made quite a blaze. By its light Tish read that bears in the summer are full fed and really frolicsome and that they are awful cowards. We felt quite cheered and brave, and Tish said if he came near to throw the fire kettle at him and he'd probably die of fright.
I am going to ride; every woman should ride. It's good for the liver." I think she rather wavered when they brought the horse, which looked larger than usual and had a Roman nose. The instructor handed Tish four lines and she grabbed them nervously in a bunch. "Just a moment!" said the instructor, and slipped a line between each two of her fingers. Tish looked rather startled.
This is your doing, Tish Carberry. If it hadn't been for you and your habit of picking up stray cats and dogs and Orientals and imposing them on your friends we'd be on the ocean to-day, on our way to a decent climate. The next time your duty to your brother man overwhelms you, you'd better lock yourself in your room and throw the key out the window." Tish was not listening, however.
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