“None of your bee’s wax, Paul. I’m tired of this interrogation. Here, hang on a sec.” She retreated into the house but came back a moment later carrying a piece of Limoges ware featuring her painting Angels. “This is the plate for January”, she explained.
2003: John A. McDaniel, Raudy Joe, the Kid in New Mexico, pp147–148
Raudy found Red’s strange ways a bit hard to keep up with, but he kept watching. Then he saw Red put a short rope in a bag to take to school. “What are you going to do with the rope?”
“None of your bee’s wax! Now leave me alone.” In the afternoon he watched Red coax the horse up with the bread, and put the rope around its neck. The horse followed the tug on the rope without resistance and Red led it home. Watching from a distance as Red shut the gate behind them, The Kid saw them disappear into the barn lot.