Then, along came the “know it all” schoolteacher recently arrived in the game preserve and she was adamant that everything that ended in “us” ...eeded to be changed to “i” because it was something called “Latin”.Harry didn’t think that he wasn’t very Latin and he knew most of the other hippopotamuses didn’t think “hippopotami” was the correct form of designation.Besides, he didn’t think that old time stuff like Latin and Rome and Greek and Greece belonged anywhere near Africa and they as free. Dixon was a sturdy eighteen-year-old farm boy who mainly kept to himself. Unengaging as he was, nevertheless, it was widely acknowledged that one simply didn’t mess with him.“Have you guys got a problem, Roger?” Dixon asked as he arrived alongside us.“No,” Roger replied, as the usual snarl rapidly evaporated from his face. “I was just having a chat with pretty-boy.”“It didn’t look like a chat to me,” Dixon replied while running the back of his hand to and fro across the bottom of his nose.. "I'll fix us something to eat. Viv will be home soon." You got a shower?" I asked him and he pointed me towards an arch."Through the bedroom, can't miss it." Cool." I needed to get cleaned up."You like Chinese?" Ransom asked me and I giggled. "What?" Nothing," I shook my head. "I just been seeing oriental stuff everywhere I look. It's good, yeah." Heh ... Okay," he was grinning.It's always sorta awkward being with someone like that. I mean, I'd gotten picked up before, you know, taken home. .. he wiff his daddy?" Jacob continued."A little girl," Annie shook her head. "She died." Annie grabbed her pad and coffee and started for the steps back to her apartment. "Let Bubba in if he starts barking."1998: Winchester, TN"Come on, darlin', get in this house so Granny can see you."Road weary and aching, Annie stumbled from the Bronco after her four-day drive and into her Grandmother's home in Winchester, Tennessee."Brought you a present Gran, all the way from New Mexico," Annie said.