The Greenhorn

Bodie is in his autumn years--he's 13--and needs an apprentice herder. (Lily moved to Boston with Zach and Cady, where she chases squirrels, herds neighbor dogs, and drinks so much of the Atlantic that she throws up.) Bodie doesn't actually want a tenderfoot sister to train, especially a cute, happy, silly, boisterous pup that gets too much attention, but he doesn't get a vote. 

It looks like Bodie's got two new sisters!

But--whew!--Ellie is the only one.

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"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." ~Wendell Berry, "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" from Good Poems (selected by Garrison Keillor).