Glory Boys
“He liked the shade of his porch and the way he could hear the night birds and the crickets take over from the sights and sounds of the day. He liked staying out of the house, when his wife was sending his kids bawling up to wash. And he liked the tobacco. Nowhere grows better tobacco than Georgia, and Hennessey got his from a farm which worked a little magic on those precious golden leaves.He inhaled, relaxed and pondered. And what he pondered was this. One week ago, the kid Lundmark had finall...y got his mom’s permission to get himself apprenticed down in Brunswick. Instead, the kid had ridden a freight train to Miami and headed on to the airfield there.The kid had pitched up early, but too late to catch Abe. No problem. The kid made himself useful. He sharpened Abe’s tools, ground chisels ’til their edges flashed silver, threw sawdust onto oil spills and swept up after. He kicked open the door of the lean-to office and cleaned the place top to bottom. He lingered on the long shelf of castings above the workbench.MoreLess
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