A Hard Bargain (2010)
A Hard Bargain
““I can’t tell where I’ve glued it.” Jerry took the bottle and opened it. “It opens just as if it were new.” “Do you see any glue tracks?” “Very little. If you were extremely careful, there would be none.” Extremely careful. Hadn’t Bernice been extremely careful gluing the corners of a paperback book?
Before we went to the library, I helped Jerry pack the bat books into boxes.
“You’re sure you want to give these away?” “I know all I need to know about bats.” I held up a slim green volume.... “What about this? It looks like a journal of some kind.” Jerry took the book and flipped through the pages. “It’s probably about bats. Yep, right here on page thirty-five, ‘September tenth. Found a large colony of myotis lucifugus roosting in the Fosters’ barn.’” He turned another page. “And here we have a record of all bats sighted from 1975 through 1980.MoreLess
Before we went to the library, I helped Jerry pack the bat books into boxes.
“You’re sure you want to give these away?” “I know all I need to know about bats.” I held up a slim green volume.... “What about this? It looks like a journal of some kind.” Jerry took the book and flipped through the pages. “It’s probably about bats. Yep, right here on page thirty-five, ‘September tenth. Found a large colony of myotis lucifugus roosting in the Fosters’ barn.’” He turned another page. “And here we have a record of all bats sighted from 1975 through 1980.MoreLess
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