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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmlook pissed off.”“Ellie, that’s vulgar.”“Sorry.”She gave him that strange, fey look and then drifted off to look at the racks of kid books—Mercer Meyerand Maurice Sendak and Richard Scarry and Beatrix Potter and that famous old standby, Dr. Seuss. Howdo they find this stuff out? Or do they just know? How much does Ellie know? How’s it affecting her?Ellie, what’s behind that pale little face? Pissed off at him— Christ!“Can I have these, Daddy?” She was holding out a Dr. Seuss and a book Louis hadn’t seen since his ownchildhood—the story of Little Black Sambo and how the tigers had gotten his clothes one fine day.I thought they’d made that one an unbook, Louis thought, bemused.“Yes,” he said, and they stood in a short line at the cash register. “Your grandda and I like each otherfine,” he said and thought again of his mother’s story of how when a woman really wanted a baby, she“found” one. He remembered his own foolish promises to himself that he would never lie to his ownchildren.Over the last few days he had developed into quite a promising liar, he felt, but he would not let himselfthink about it now.“Oh,” she said and fell silent.The silence made him uneasy. To break it he said, “So do you think you’ll have a good time inChicago?”No.“No? Why not?”She looked up at him with that fey expression. “I’m scared.”He put his hand on her head. “Scared? Honey, what for? You’re not scared of the plane, are you?”“No,” she said. “I don’t know what I’m scared of. Daddy, I dreamed we were at Gage’s funeral and thefuneral man opened his coffin and it was empty. Then I dreamed I was home and I looked in Gage’s criband that was empty too. But there was dirt in it.”file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (245 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM