23 I didn't know it then, but my mother would walk out behind the motel and follow a path that cut across the railroad tracks and sloped downward sharply and after half a mile came to the edge of agully. Shewould climb down and practice firing the pistol, shooting at stumps and dead limbs and aiming at shadows on the gully walls. I dragged the Gideon from under the bed, but its spine broke, and pages fell out and scattered everywhere.I picked up one of them and read: Be still, and know that I am God. I found a plastic grocery bag, and I gathered the pages and stuffed them in, then twisted the bag and tied it in a knot, and I went out and made my wayto the trashpile, and I threw the bag onto the garbage and left it there. CO I didn't know it then, but my mother would walk out behind the motel and follow a path that cut across the railroad tracks and sloped downward sharply and after halfa mile carne to the edge ofa gully. She would climb down and practice firing the pistol, shooting at stumps and dead limbs and aiming at shadows on the gully walls. *** I dragged the Gideon from under the bed, but its spine broke, and pages fell out and scattered everywhere. I picked up one of them and read: Be still, and know that I am God. I found a plastic grocery bag, and I gathered the pages and stuffed them in, then twisted the bag and tied it in a knot, and I went out and made my way to the trashpile, and I threw the bag onto the garbage and left it there. 9° ...