“Same way as I always do, only with more pee on me.” “Them oilcloth britches ought to help some.” “Hmph.” She gazed lovingly at her baby and kissed his forehead. “You ought to get yourself one of these little fellers. You’d be a good daddy, just like Boston.” After five years, Jake still called her husband “Boston” since he’d lived in that city for several years. When he first came back to Owyhee County, she called him that in derision, but these days, it was a pet name. “I don’t need no ankle-biters. Too damn much work.” “They are that. I’d have said the same thing before Boston knocked me up.” “But you had Homer, Teddy, and Henry.” “Didn’t collect them until they was older. I didn’t know the first thing about raising a baby.” “So how did you learn all that mothering stuff?”
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