“What do you call this place?” Sherrie asked.
Cowboy glanced around at the small clearing, the bower with the quilt spread out inside, and the hearth stones ringing the fire. “I never thought about naming it.”
“I think ‘Willowcave’ would be a good name.”
“Yeah, I like that.”
Soon, their plates were filled with fish, mushrooms, and grapes.
“Read us the story while we eat,” Sherrie said.
He flipped open the book to the picture of the casket floating on a rough sea.
The girls sat on his quilt, eating as he talked.
Cowboy with Penny, ‘reading’ to
Sherrie and Karen at Camp Willowcave
“They found a long box floating on the ocean. When the captain and crew pulled it onto their ship, they found it filled with Christmas presents.”
Cowboy had never received a Christmas present. They didn’
