Ella Mae knew virtually nothing about how to shoot, so I had to teach her everything except which end of the gun to point at somebody—that she alrea...dy knew. We went through a lot of ammunition for the Henry rifle, but she learned to be an excellent shot at stationary targets after the end of three weeks. Moving targets were going to be a whole new story, but we had no good way to practice that. She would just have to learn that when we had some Indians to shoot at.However, we did go through so. ”“So the severance pay... , “ Karissa kept Junie talking.“I got some left. Luckily Gus and I have always kept separate accounts. And the bank I’m in has branches all over. I have enough to get a place and look for work. My boss gave me a nice letter of recommendation, and it shouldn’t be hard to find secretarial work wherever I end up. Salt Lake City maybe. What about you?”“What do you mean?”“You’re going to look for work there?”“I’ve never really worked, except for cooking and keeping the. I wanted to explain it came from years of following my father out into the wilderness to find food for the dinner table and he had taken pains to insure my accuracy by a lot of "hands on" reinforcement on my defenseless rump if I missed the target. That seemed a little too personal to relate so I just smiled and reassured them it was just "beginner's luck".The war against the North Korean and Venezuelan invaders was not going too well and I couldn't understand why the President hadn't given the. "C'mon and sit down."Jeremy looked like he was going through that awkward stage of all legs and arms; and big feet. He was obviously going through puberty because his skin looked oily and he had small zits on his chin. I pointed at his clown shoes as he flopped down on the couch."My God, what size shoes do you wear?" Size thirteen." You're kidding! How old are you now?" I turned fourteen in February" Whoa ... you're a big-shot eighth grader now."I was thinking about how long we had known each.