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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmonce. . .“Jud shook his head and coughed dryly into the palm of his hand.“Listen,” he said. “Listen, Louis. Lester’s bull was the only damn animal I ever knew of that turnedreally mean. I b’lieve that Missus Lavesque’s little chow might have bit the postman once, after, and Iheard a few other things. . . animals that got a little nasty . . but Spot was always a good dog. He alwayssmelled like dirt, it didn’t matter how many times you washed him, he always smelled like dirt—but hewas a good dog. My mother would never touch him afterward, but he was a good dog just the same. ButLouis, if you was to take your cat out tonight and kill it, I would never say a word.“That place. . . all at once it gets hold of you . . . and you make up the sweetest-smelling reasons in theworld . . but I could have been wrong, Louis. That's all I’m saying. Lester could have been wrong.Stanny B. could have been wrong. Hell, I ain’t God either. But bringing the dead back to life. . . that’sabout as close to playing God as you can get, ain’t it?”Louis opened his mouth again, then closed it again. What would have come out would have soundedwrong, wrong andcruel: Jud, I didn’t go through all that just to kill the damn cat again.Jud drained his beer and then put it carefully aside with the other empties. “I guess that’s it,” he said. “Iam talked out.”“Can I ask you one other question?” Louis asked.“I guess so,” Jud said.Louis said: “Has anyone ever buried a person up there?” Jud’s arm jerked convulsively; two of the beerbottles fell off the table, and one of them shattered.“Christ on His throne,” he said to Louis. “No! And who ever would? You don’t even want to talk aboutsuch things, Louis!”“I was just curious,” Louis said uneasily.“Some things it don’t pay to be curious about,” Jud Crandall said, and for the first time he looked reallyold and infirm to Louis Creed, as if he were standing somewhere in the neighborhood of his own freshlyprepared grave.And later, at home, something else occurred to him about how Jud had looked at that moment.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (132 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM