Wanderlust Creek and Other Stories Quotes

“If she hadn’t had so much responsibility to keep her busy, she might have been the kind of child that drives schoolteachers into nervous breakdowns and invents the delightful schemes and plays for which somebody else always seems to get in trouble. Even so, she still got into scrapes sometimes, mainly daring the cowboys to do madcap riding stunts or putting pepper in the coffee of somebody who didn’t have the sense of humor to appreciate it.”
― Elisabeth Grace Foley, Wanderlust Creek and Other Stories

“He coughed, and spit dust. “Oh…just a fight,” he said.
He grinned up at her from one side of his face; his right eye was already half swollen shut.
“I was doing all right for about half a minute, but after that it was all the other way.”
“There were two of them,” said his friend Tripp hotly. “It wasn’t a fight; they just beat him up.”
“Billy and Ames,” supplied Mark, somewhat muffled by the wet cloth being applied to his split lip. “Dunno what got into ’em—just decided they didn’t like me, I guess.”
― Elisabeth Grace Foley, Wanderlust Creek and Other Stories