Word: gil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company, he had Maggie Gannon. Maggie was a husky, black-haired woman who had borne a brood of children over at Stony Point before she went to live with Gil 20 years ago. Gil called her his housekeeper...
...Gil and Maggie discouraged strangers from coming up the mountain. They came down only to vote the straight Republican ticket, to pick up supplies and to get their old-age pension checks. The checks were one modern convenience to which Gil had no objection. With them, he and Maggie got along fine until the winter of 1946. Then they fell sick, almost froze to death, and were taken by a rescue party to a hospital at Suffern. When they got well, they were sent to the Rockland County poor farm...
Back to Their Shack. But after a few months Gil and Maggie ran away from the farm and lit out for their shack on Half Moon. An alarm was sounded, but Abe Stern, police chief of Ramapo township, didn't do anything about it. "Gil and Maggie will make out all right," he said...
They did, until this spring. Then Gil began to feel poorly; his heart was giving out. He took to bed. Day after day he lay there, looking out the cabin's dusty window. "Dogwood's late this year," he kept saying to Maggie. "Don't know as I'll live...
...Gil was wrong about that. A spell of hot weather brought the dogwood out, and one day last week, Half Moon was misty with its whiteness. Gil propped himself up to take a good look. "Never seen it prettier, even if it is late," he told Maggie. Then he fell back and closed his eyes for the last time...