Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

We spent the next few days settling in, taking trips into Eureka to walk around and look in store windows, and hiking across the pastureland behind the house all the way to the woods. We bought groceries and I found an ad in the newspaper for rewood, called, and a day or so a erwards two young men with long hair delivered a pick-up truckload of alder and stacked it in the carport. at night we sat in front of the replace a er dinner and drank co ee and talked about getting a dog. ‘I don’t want a pup,’ Nancy said. ‘Something we have to clean up a er or that will chew things up. at we don’t need. But I’d like to have a dog, yes. We haven’t had a dog in a long time. I think we could handle a dog up here,’ she said. ‘And a er we go back, a er summer’s over?’ I said. I rephrased the question. ‘What about keeping a dog in the city?’ ‘We’ll see. Meanwhile, let’s look for a dog. e right kind of dog. I don’t know what I want until I see it. We’ll read the classi eds and we’ll go to the pound, if we have to.’ But though we went on talking about dogs for several days, and pointed out dogs to each other in people’s yards we’d drive past, dogs we said we’d like to have, nothing came of it, we didn’t get a dog. Nancy called her mother and gave her our address and telephone number. Richard was working and seemed happy, her mother said. She herself was ne. I heard Nancy say, ‘We’re ne. is is good medicine.’ One day in the middle of July we were driving the highway near the ocean and came over a rise to see some lagoons that were closed o from the ocean by sand spits. ere were some people shing from shore, and two boats out on the water. I pulled the car o on to the shoulder and stopped. ‘Let’s see what they’re shing for,’ I said. ‘Maybe we could get some gear and go ourselves.’ ‘We haven’t been shing in years,’ Nancy said. ‘Not since that time Richard was little and we went camping near Mount Shasta. Do you remember that?’ ‘I remember,’ I said. ‘I just remembered too that I’ve missed shing. Let’s walk down and see what they’re shing for.’ ‘Trout,’ the man said, when I asked. ‘Cut-throats and rainbow trout. Even some steelhead and a few salmon. ey come in here in the winter when the spit opens and then when it closes in the spring, they’re trapped. is is a good time of the year for them. I haven’t caught any today, but last Sunday I caught four, about een inches long. Best eating sh in the world, and they put up a hell of a ght. Fellows out in the boats have caught some today, but so far I haven’t done anything today.’ ‘What do you use for bait?’ Nancy asked. ‘Anything,’ the man said. ‘Worms, salmon eggs, whole kernel corn. Just get it out there and leave it lay on the bottom.’ We hung around a little longer and watched the man sh and watched the little boats chat-chat back and forth the length of the lagoon. ‘ anks,’ I said to the man. ‘Good luck to you.’ ‘Good luck to you,’ he said. ‘Good luck to the both of you.’ We stopped at a sporting goods store on the way back to town and bought licences and some shing equipment. We made plans to go shing the next morning. But that night, a er we’d eaten dinner and washed the dishes and I had laid a re in the replace, Nancy shook her head and said it wasn’t going to work. ‘Why do you say that?’ I asked. ‘What is it you mean?’ ‘I mean it isn’t going to work. Let’s face it.’ She shook her head again. ‘I don’t think I want to go shing in the morning, either, and I don’t want a dog. No, no dogs. I think I want to go up and see my mother and Richard. Alone. I want to be alone. I miss Richard,’ she said and began to cry. ‘Richard’s my son, my baby,’ she said, ‘and he’s nearly grown and gone. I miss him.’ ‘And Del, do you miss Del Shraeder, too?’ I said. alder: Erlenholz to stack firewood: Brennholz schlichten pound: Tierheim gear: Ausrüstung spit: Landzunge cut-throat/rainbow/steelhead/salmon trout: diverse Forellenarten bait: Köder whole kernel corn: Vollkornmais licence: hier: Angelerlaubnis 135 1 Compact unit 1: Stories stories tell Nur zu Prüfzweck n – Eigentum des Verl gs öbv