TheLadyInTheLake

The screaming, and kicking, and wailing of small girl and adult alike had ceased and now the atmosphere smelled of quiet curiosity, catlike. For a father was telling a story to the daughter who not long ago had been screaming, and kicking, and wailing so much that the neighbors had known. The story was of his childhood; when he was barely older than the girl and how he sent his father's trip to Fort Ticonderoga awhirl. The girl's grandfather had always wanted to visit that place near Lake Champlain but when he finally got to, his son and daughter only complained The father of the girl now thought that if opportunity knocked,

Ed Davy used to be a third baseman on the Baltimore Orioles, but now he was a retiree. You see, Ed was thirty-nine. Thirty-nine is quite an old age to be running and jumping around like a lunatic all day, isn't it? Ed thought so too. His retirement had first brought some congratulations on such a long and fruitful career, but eventually his friends decided they just had to tease him a little bit. "You're an old man now, Eddy," one such friend said. "You should take up knitting to pass the spare time," said another. After each one of these taunts, Ed would say something along the lines of, "What, do want me to go live in a retirement communi