(About six dollars.)"And I hope your wife gets over her cold." With that, Hero made his way towards the distant house. Feeling mildly relived when fin...lly hearing the old green Volvo start its trundle away and down the road. He hadn't wished to be rude, but the old fellow had just about talked his ear off! Now privy to more facts about the local pig population than he believed necessary or desirable, The twenty-minute trip from the rail station had seemed like an hour!"The house looks larger in. He’d really put a licking on the ball. Rising, he lined himself with where he wanted to run the ball, using the experience from years of Saturday mornings to know just where to put it. With a measured stroke back and forth, the ball leapt off the putter, taking Andre’s gaze from where the ball had sat all the way to the lip of the cup before disappearing into the hole. ‘Damn. I still don’t see how you do that.’ ‘Same way I do everything – with style.’ Andre laughed at the line, then guffawed. "After a quick shower, Daryl joined his parents in the kitchen forbreakfast."Ready for the game against Westmont?" his father asked."Of course, we'll beat them just like we always do." he repliedsmugly. "It's always fun to beat your crosstown rivals. Thisgame won't be any different from any of the other Westmont gamesI've played in." This will make four straight wins against them. That is, if youwin. Won't it?" It's not an if, dad. It's when."Suddenly Daryl shuddered. Four straight. " Good hunting, Hook Nose," Jim replied. "It lifts my heart that a great leader of the Human Beings sees me worthy of his sign."The man wheeled his horse and trotted back to his band, oblivious to the fact that Jim held his rifle across his lap. When he joined his men, he distributed the knives among them. Other things were handed around, too, and Jim assumed that those who did not receive knives got other things for compensation. Then the whole band turned their horses and rode in northern.