The Linnet’s Wings
Alma Mater by Edvard Munch, Date: 1911 - 1916, Style: Expressionism, Period: Late works, Genre: genre painting, Media: oil, canvas, Location: University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
THE COURTSHIP OF ALMA by Bill Frank Robinson
It's dark when we leave the cookhouse and walk back to the bunkhouse. All the guys are outside, sitting around a roaring fire. Oscar and Buck, Oscar's sidekick, move over on the bench. Dad and me sit down. Sandy, Dad's foreman,says, "Howdy Billy. Howdy Frank." Sandy is sitting on an old wooden barrel, poking at the fire with a stick. He lights his pipe. The smoke curls up and disappears into the blackness. I look around and most everybody is smoking a cigarette or pipe. Someday I'm gonna smoke a pipe: that's what a real man smokes. Everybody is watching Sandy so he starts talking. "Before anybody starts telling us a bear story there's something that needs to be cleared up." Done Gone Broke Charlie asks, "What's that?" 66
