A new peek at the novel HAVENWOOD TALES Beginnings by Author, D.J. Houston
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Continued from Havenwood Tales Surprise – Gabriel White Cloud Walling
“I like all your names, Mister Walling,” I assured him, and that pleased him very much.
Then he told me the story of a loyal Irish setter named Buddy. And how, when he was a boy, Buddy laid down one day and never got up.
He told how his father had lumbered off on a spotted mule with Buddy’s body draped behind him over the mule’s rump. And for seven years after, a bright orange butterfly flitted and danced above the cornfields where Buddy and he used to race the sun together.