Still around the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. (Tolkien)
I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can’t change the way anybody else thinks or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. (charles de lint)
I know I told you earlier that Fred ‘n me would be stayin’ put for awhile, and tellin’ you these here stories, but I’m here today to tell you that we gotta be gettin’ on the road again. And I can’t say as how I’m sorry. Her paws and my feet were gettin’ kinda itchy.
The reason we’re gettin’ ready to go is that we heard from Miz Suze down Texas way. Her message just got to me and come from some weeks back, and whatever kinda help she needed, I just hope I’m not too late, since I think a powerful lot of that woman. We’re settin’ off early tomorrow mornin’, after we get our road provisions together. She, Miz Suze that is, is still at the Yella Rose Schoolhouse, and didn’t say much, other than that she could use a friendly hand, and needed somebody she could trust.
So we’re off back down the Indian Trail, and I’ll be talkin’ to you again, most likely from Texas, if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise.
