Aaron came upbehind her put his hands in front of her and again slid them downagain to her baby bump."Beth watch out!" Screamed her mom. Beth was brou...ht back to awarenessjust in time to avoid hitting the car in front of them. "What areyou doing? Where is your mind?" Beth thought to herself, trust memom you don't want to know."I am sorry mom I was distracted with school and some other things."They drove in silence until they pulled into the garage. As soon asthey entered the house her mom. “What I did, didn’t get him killed but it may have saved your life now that I think back on it. You see, it was me that stuck the hay fork in your bedroll and spit my ‘backer juice on it. I knew you wasn’t in it, I checked. I did that to set him up with you, thinking you’d just dust his hide for him and settle him down a bit. When you left that day and no one knew about it, I was wondering what was gonna happen now. Then Roller caused a ruckus when Mr. Canady was payin’ us off, just like he did. "No harm in that," said John. "Not many kids like reading nowadays."Later that week, they got a visit from Sally."Don't mind if I stay the night?" she said."You're welcome to," said John."Thanks bro. I thought I'd make the trip being as I've got the week offwork," she said."Well, there are some children in the living room who would like to speakto you," said John. "I suppose you'd like a drink?" Would love one," said Sally, now heading for the living room. "Hi kids." Aunt Sally!" cried Emma,. He had already asked all the other hippopotamuses for their opinions and it looked like a fairly even split with half of them favoring the use of hippopotamuses and the other half certain that hippopotami was the correct plural for their species of animal life in Africa.He was a little confused about using hippopotamuses or hippopotami but he was quite sure that they were in Africa because his mama told him so.His mama was never wrong.Unfortunately, she did not want to get into the discussion.