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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmLester Morgan buried his prize hull up there. Black Angus bull, named Hanratty . . . Lester dragged himall the way up there on a sledge . . . shot him dead two weeks later. That bull turned mean, really mean.But he’s the only animal I ever heard of that did.He turned mean.The soil of a man’s heart is stonier.He turned really mean.He’s the only animal I ever heard of that did.Mostly you do it because once you’ve been up there, it’s your place.The flesh looked dimpled in.Hanratty, ain’t that a silly name for a bull?A man grows what he can. . . and tends it.They’re my rats. And my birds. I bought the fuckers.It’s your place, a secret place, and it belongs to you, and you belong to it.He turned mean, but he’s the only animal I ever heard of that did.What do you want to buy next, Louis, when the wind blows hard at night and the moon lays a white paththrough the woods to that place? Want to climb those stairs again? When they’re watching a horrormovie, everyone in the audience knows the hero or the heroine is stupid to go up those stairs, but in reallife they always do—they smoke, they don’t wear seat belts, they move their family in beside a busyhighway where the big rigs drone back and forth all day and all night. So, Louis, what do you say? Wantto climb the stairs? Would you like to keep your dead son or go for what’s behind Door Number One,Door Number Two, or Door Number Three?Hey-ho, let’s go.Turned mean. . . only animal. . . the flesh looked. . . a man yours. . . his. .Louis dumped the rest of the beer down the sink, feeling suddenly that he was going to vomit. The roomwas moving around in great swinging motions.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (204 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM