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Sing a Little Dance a Little

I awake to the sound of water dripping and, when I look out the , find it’s raining The water co really is here!

Bythe storm clouds pass and I’m able to drive into Liberty

"How are the roads?" I ask Boodean when Sheriff Hardets a connection to the camp on the shortwave

"Bad," Boodean answers "One of the trucks slid into the creek"

"I guess I better not try to get there then"

"Don’t even think of it Nuthin’ but mud and slick aswell you know You’d be foolish to try"

"How’s everything else? How’s Drake?"

"Still the low-grade fever, chills, and the cough I’ve been bringing him four rees we need to get hiton, but he says we should wait until toer’s Pharree to the plan We talk a little about a patient with a spider bite who came into the clinic yesterday and then, "Is the captain stillindrawn breath "Yes, et back in his good graces?"

"Sing a little Dance a little"

"Boodean, I’ a little Dance a little Over and out"

Then just static

Namesake

I arrive, as instructed, by nine fifteen and stand in theof Stenger’s Phar for Captain Wolfe and Boodean Snow is already flying again, but not so it would stick, just big, lazy flakes coer asks, staring across the counter, one eye ontoward the"I haven’t seen her for a long ti better"

"Dr Bluery, that’s what I heard A hee, was it?"

"Yes" It doesn’t surprise me that the pharmacist knows some of the details of the birth I expected it In a sht perk her up" Stenger holds out a small brown bottle, labeled Dr Blaud’s Iron Pills "This is the real McCoy! It would do Patience a lot of good"

"I usually don’t hold with patent e "Dr Blum used to say that most of them are a bunch of hooey" I don’t knohy I invoke Dr Bluer continues like a pitchree, but I can vouch for this It actually has iron in it Does wonders for woive it a shake "How ift The midwife took care of my mother one su she ever had"