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She used to sprint back and forth
waiting for me when the truck breached
the driveway. At her gate, she would
leap straight into the air, over and over,
hoping I would come inside the pen
to lie down in the grass with her. She
perceived my every movement, even
250 feet from the back door of the
house. She heard every utterance and
waited at the gate for my recognition.
Now, a hundred boxes of shells later,
she can barely hear me at all, even when
I speak directly to her. e clouds in her
eyes have stolen any clarity. She is thin
and odoriferous.
We have done together far more than
we will yet do. She is an old woman, but
with a young girl's heart.
One Sunday a couple of years back,
when she could not rise, and I thought
the end was at hand, I asked my
veterinarian with whom I worship if
he would look at her aer church. He
agreed.
She was motionless on the back seat
when I arrived at his office. Carrying
her in my arms, I felt sure this would
end with a shovel, and I lost it before
Doc swabbed the first Q-tip or filled
the first syringe. But he found nothing
wrong. He predicted that she had
injured her neck somehow and told
me just to let her stay as still as she
would. Two weeks later, she was
climbing the hills of Virginia on the
opening day of grouse season.
Oen, I measure my past by the dog
that I had. "at was when I had Kay"
or "at was about the time Fred Stowe
gave me Dixie." Some day sooner than
later, I will mark the years as the ones
when Summer was my girl – the dog
days of Summer.
For now, I have a real good idea of
where there is a covey of birds in
Granville County living on the edge of
a pine cutover lined with sawtooth oaks
and lespedeza. Summer sees them too,
despite the clouded vision.
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