: Happy Island: A New Uncle William Story by Lee Jennette - Islands Fiction

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HAPPY ISLAND

HAPPY ISLAND

THE sunlight got in Uncle William's eyes. He looked up from the map spread on the table before him. Then he got up slowly and crossed to the window and drew down the turkey-red curtain--a deep glow filled the room. Juno, on the lounge, stirred a little and stretched her daws, and drew them in and tucked her head behind them and went on sleeping.

Uncle William returned to his map. His big finger found a dotted line and followed it slowly up the table with little mumbles of words.... The room was very still--only the faintest whisper of a breeze came across the harbor--and Uncle William's head bent over the map and traveled with his finger.... "They 'd run in here, like enough, and..."

A shadow crossed the curtain and he looked up.

Andy was in the doorway, grinning--a bunch of lobsters dangling from his hand, stretching frantic green legs into space. Andy looked down at them.

Uncle William shook his head. "You 'll get into trouble, Andy, carryin' 'em that way, right in broad daylight--you can put 'em out there under the bucket--so 's 't the sun won't hit 'em."

Andy departed and the scraping of the bucket on the hard rock came cautiously in the window.... Juno lifted her ear and flicked it and went on dreaming. Uncle William returned to the map.

"What you huntin' up?" asked Andy. He was looking in the window.

"'D you put a stone on top the bucket?"

"Yep--What you lookin' for?" asked Andy.

"I was just seein' where they 'd got to..... They must be up along Battle Harbor way, by this time--"

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