October 21, 2012

Irene

(1993 July, Rueping memoir)
Irene Sallee needs a special paragraph.  She had a barn fixed with a stall for her horse behind our house, and she was an excellent horseback rider; in fact, she was the instructor at Grafton Hall, an Episcopal girls' school.  Her hair was combed back tightly with a big roll, and I never saw her adjust a pin, all tight and stayed put.  ...  She was very masculine but not rough.  ...  She came out every day and curried her horse and cared for hooves, etc., etc.  My mother let me go out and watch and talk to her as I had so few people in the summer to be with.  But I was never asked to ride etc.  We just talked about the horse as she brushed or whatever.

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