Uncle Bud's Health Mine and the Girl Who's Going to Fix the World
by Mary Patterson ThornburgPublish: Apr 19, 2017Women's Fiction Fantasy Book Overview
Before Bud Lomax started calling Bull Cave a "health mine" and opened it up for business, I never put much stock in the stories folks told about the place. Like Mama used to say, if people want a good story, like as not they can make one up.
One was about how that cave was where little Helen McCarthy disappeared to, some years before Mama was born. Not many believed it, because how could a little kid have walked all that way up the canyon from town? But that's what I thought of when I saw her, just standing there all of a sudden, dressed in an old-fashioned dress, hair done up in a braid. Smiling that big, bright smile. She looked to be about five years old.
You know how all the little hairs on your arms will stand up sometimes?