Chapter Ten
“Hey, Dr. Daniel! We have an argument we need you to settle. It’s about the Woodsman’s version of ‘Babes in the Woods’.”
Daniel almost laughed thinking of what he’d said to Mel this morning about not following old hags into the woods. An older couple strolled toward him on the meandering path where he and Jamie were working. He recognized the regulars. They had been coming to the mountain since he was a child.
“How are you, Myrna? Hal?”
“Wonderful. This place is working its usual magic,” Hal replied. “Hello there, Jamie Lynn.”
Jamie waved the scoop she was using to dip out sunflower seeds.
“You must know every story he ever told by heart,” Myrna said. “We’ve been trying to remember what happened to the nasty stepmother in his version.”
Daniel smiled. Pops’s version of Ha
