“Bruce, you’ve been great to us, helping our family grow. A little while later Jake returned. “Jake and I are so happy! Help me release him.”
“What? That’s a week’s pay!”
He looked at me disapprovingly and frowned. We were content with just those, a refrigerated tank for the milk we sold, and two outlets in the kitchen; up until we could afford a television in 1954. “Okay, if you’re sure.” I took out my trap bar, which was like a crowbar but thinner and lighter. At the time my trap line was a triangle starting near the barn, crossing the creek and going to the southeast corner of our land, over to the southwest corner, then crossing the creek again on the way back. I stared at the ground with him and thought quite a while. He said the evil Russian Commies were blockading the city of Berlin, and America and her allies needed to do everything we could to help.
