Abram's Daughters 02 The Betrayal - Plot & Excerpts
Today being a perfect day for a picnic, the People would eat and fellowship on the grounds. Bread and homemade butter, sliced cheeses, dill and sweet pickles, strawberry jam, red beets, half-moon apple pies, and ice-cold lemonade the standard light fare for a summer Sunday go-to-meeting. Not that a body could eat himself full on such, a menu. It was merely intended to squelch growling stomachs till the People could ride horse and buggy back home. "Has anybody seen Sadie?" Mary Ruth asked of Leah and Hannah. c 'Sadie's sittin' up in the meadow, head between her knees like she's under the weather," Aunt Lizzie offered. Mary Ruth joked, " 'Cept ain't it an awful nice day to " "Now, leave her be," Mamma spoke up. .At this Mary Ruth turned to Hannah and frowned. , "You heard Mamma," Hannah whispered. Still, Mary Ruth wondered how Sadie could get by with skipping church, soaking up the sunshine instead. Unless she was ill. But if she was simply having a sulk, well, then it didn't make sense.
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