All I had to do was go and get it. Finished with his feeding of Little Ann, Grandpa said, “Now, let’s see.
The hunt starts on the twenty-third. That’s about—well, let’s see—this is the seventeenth.”
Counting on his fingers he finally figured it out. “That’s six days from now,” he said in a jubilant voice.
I nodded my head. “We can leave here early on the morning of the twenty-second,” he said,
“and barring accidents, we should make the campground in plenty of time for the grand opening.”
I asked how we were going. “We’ll go in my buggy,” he said. “I’ll load the tent and everything the night before.”
I asked him what he wanted me to bring. “Nothing,” he said, “but these two little hounds, and you be here early;
and I believe I’d let these dogs rest, ‘cause we want them in tiptop shape when we get there.”
I saw the thinking wrinkles bunch up on Grandpa’s forehead.
“You reckon your daddy would like to go?” he asked.
“As late in the fall as it is, I don’t think he’s too busy, is he?”
“No, our crops are all gathered,” I said. “We’ve been clearing some of the bottom land, but that’s almost done now.”
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