Show Pinky By Paschal La Lo Padul Padula ULIA WARREN looked up 1 from JULIA her pie baking suddenly i a and n d thought it had happened Bud Dud she called Please tr try to keep Pinky by your side Hell He'll get hurt it If he keeps chasing cars the he way does doe She Sho watched Bud Dud through her kitchen window as he scolded P Pinky by waving a fat finger at h him 1 mM m. m Minute 3 3 M u 8 tn t d do 0 Fiction PInky I Mom i says youre you're a bad dc dog Then he pushed along the tho side sidewalk in his wagon Pinky at his side Julia went back to baking her apple pie pic a n worried look on her face Pinky was lovable but hIs habit of chasing cars through the streets of Collinsville made J Julia dread the event which must lne inevitably bly occur Julia had urged her 1 husband hus band Mark to persuade Bud Dud to give up the dog but Mark was too soft It will break the boys boy's hea heart he ho would say Not nearly as badly as It would If It something dreadful happened to Pinky Julia always thought That could be som something something some some- thing Bud Dud might never get over That might be ba something I ho he would always remember like a sharp continuous pain Julia Jull knew well It would be bo that way i. i ft t h 1 do Pinky Mom om says say youre you're a bad dog She tried to cast thoughts from her er mind that were like Jagg jagged glass lass She opened the oven do door saw iw that the pie was almost bro brown enough lough to take out Then she heard it heard it-heard heard it II like she ie knew she would like she h had heard sard it once before in the recesses recess of 1 her mind Buds Bud's scream a cai cars car's futile tile brakes PInky's agonizing bark irk All she could hear then were Bud Duds Buds sobbing words Pinky I They buried burled Pinky In a small wooden Joden box in a corner of the bat back backyard backyard yard rd among the flowers Julia put a marker arker with Pinky's name intI tl the ground while Bud just watched ar arId and said Id nothing Julia did not know whether there was ts more sorrow than relief in hi her heart art Maybe it was better that It happened now instead of five or si six years ars from now when Buds Bud's lo love for Pinky would have been for the boy to forget Bud Dud could coul forget get Pinky now as she had learned learne to forget AT T dinner that night there wei were ri 1 not many words spoken Mark Mar patted his sons son's curly head an and tried Bd to console him Pink Pinky wouldn't like to see you so sad son soi son I Hed He'd d want you to remember Mr hIm with th a smile on your face and foi for get what happened today Forget forget Julia J u II a looked at Buds Bud's face and knew he ie would never forget Young minds dont don't forget easily They dont don't forget torget the most Important things Julia knew After dinner when the family was wa in the living room Mark reading hi his paper per Bud Dud playing listlessly with wit his blocks Julia suddenly put down downto Ule to sweater she was knitting She Sh She got up from her chair and went to towards towards to- to wards the Ule door What wrong Julia Marled Mark Marl asked ed alarmed Nothing dear I must get some somi air I think Ill I'll see Helen Reynolds Reynold for a few minutes It t did not take more than a few minutes lutes Julia was surprised how little 0 time it U actually took It If only other er people had realized what little time e it took It t was not until unU Julia had stepped into the living room that Mark realized what Julia had done lie rose 8 to meet her proud of his wife Julia knelt down beside Hud Bud and showed wed him what her hands held D Duds Dud's d' d Ia eyes brightened It was a tiny bundle die of ot fur lure A month old cocker spaniel with sleepy leep eyes eu and pink ears i. i Pink Pinky the Second Julia said ald saida with a smile mile Bud Dud reached out c chubby fingers fingen for a new Pinky a anew anew new hope lope JulIa ilia was glad she had remembered remembered 4 Helen Reynolds telling her herit ler about it the litter Utter of pups She was wu glad she he had remembered one day man many y years ago when she he herself henel was young with important things in her r life Julia Julla lla wat watched he 1 the sadness melt fr from m 1 Buds Bud's eyes eye as al he e fondled the pup She remembered herself as al a little girl on the day da her own on dog dOB had been boen hit bit by bra a car eu They t the he would forget torget They 11 e had had n not t understood un un- tood for the he never forgot for lOt |