It sounds as if
Squatting Fox knows things. Things that only he may know, deep, secret,
ancient, buried, mysterious, evil things that might account for that
poor bastard who’s eye fell right past your ding-dong, things you might
need to know if you intend to make it through this Indian Summer Special
One Week Camp Session, things without which no aspect of this story will
make much sense at all!
...to measure angles on
your college board exams, but that’s something you won’t need to worry
about, since it is a big deal when you’re running in the woods. In this
case, it’s just enough so that you run head on into a very sharp
protruding branch exactly at the height of your left eye. You must have
really, really wanted to see those girls judging by the speed you’d
worked up, enough to push that branch all the way through your head,
pierce the back of your skull and drop your eyeball in the pine needles
at Squatting Foxes feet.
Not out of sadness,
he’s just mildly allergic to Pale Face brains, a bit of which made it
all the way to his buckskins. |