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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmup right across from another mirror, and you can see yourself going down a whole hail of mirrors. Howmany times has this story been passed along, I wonder? A story that’s just the same, except for thenames? And that’s like the sex thing too, isn’t it?”“Your dad knew all about it.”“Ayuh. ‘Who took you up there, Jud?’ he asked me, and I told him. He just nodded like it was what hewould have expected. I guess it prob’ly was, although I found out later that there were six or eightpeople in Ludlow at that time that could have taken me up there. I guess he knew that Stanny B. was theonly one crazy enough to have actually done it.”“Did you ask him why he didn’t take you, Jud?”“I did,” Jud said. “Somewhere during that long talk I did ask him that. And he said it was a bad place, byand large, and that it didn’t often do anything good for people who had lost their animals or for theanimals themselves. He asked me if I liked Spot the way he was, and do you know, Louis, I had thehardest time answering that. . and it’s important that I tell you my feelings on that, because sooner orlater you’re going to ask me why I led you up there with your daughter’s cat if it was a bad thing to do.Isn’t that so?”Louis nodded. What was Ellie going to think about Church when she got back? That had been much onhis mind while he and Steve Masterton had been playing racket ball that afternoon.“Maybe I did it because kids need to know that sometimes dead is better,” Jud said with some difficulty.“That’s somethin your Ellie don’t know, and I got a feelin that maybe she don’t know because your wifedon’t know. Now, you go ahead and tell me if I’m wrong, and we’ll leave it.”Louis opened his mouth and then closed it again.Jud went on, now speaking very slowly, appearing to move from word to word as they had moved fromhummock to hummock in Little God Swamp the night before.“I’ve seen it happen over the years,” he said. “I guess I told you that Lester Morgan buried his prize bullup there. Black Angus named Hanratty. Ain’t that a silly name for a bull?Died of some sort of ulcer inside, and Lester dragged him all the way up there on a sledge. How he did it—how he got over the deadfall there I dunno—but it’s said that what you want to do, you can. And atleast as far as that burying ground goes, I’d say it’s true.“Well, Hanratty came back, but Lester shot him dead two weeks later. That bull turned mean, reallymean. But he’s the only animal I ever heard of that did. Most of them just seem.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (130 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM