'Rest your old bones'

“Maybe tomorrow it’ll warm up a bit eh, old dog friend of mine? Lay down Country Boy and rest your old bones. We’ll go fetch us some work in town tomorrow if the truck starts. Atta boy … lay down there and we’ll day dream a while about going down to Florida to live next winter. Meanwhile, well meanwhile. ..you know … we’ll just … listen to the fire… And … be warm….”

— “From Vermont Country Winter Memories,’’ by Robert A. Dufresne

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