Beyond the River Stones: Part 3

By JOY COWLEY

It was a woman walking in the wheat. She was dressed in wheat colour and she had long, dark hair. She seemed to be coming towards him.

He leaned against the cowyard railing and watched her climb thorough fences. From the way she was dressed - long skirt, a shawl round her shoulders - he guessed she'd come from the commune six kilometres the other side of the river. He waited, squinting against the sun, and as she came closer, he realised she was pretty. Man, she was really beautiful. His heart moved sideways in his chest and for a second he felt a strange emptiness there. She was just about the loveliest girl he'd ever seen and he knew her. Yes. No, he didn't. He tried to think. He was confused. Something in him knew, even from this distance, that her eyes were light grey and the bridge of her nose, freckled. The rest of him had never seen her before.

She came up the hill to the cowshed, looking up at him and laughing. Certainly she knew who he was, for now she was running and holding her hands out to him.

Publisher: Scholastic

Price: $13.95

Age group: 10-13 years


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