orca echoes coapstone Signs Jeff Pinkney illustrations by Darlene Gait ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS
To Mom and Dad for sending me out in April and calling me back in September
Soapstone Signs and Whispers A Spring Arrival Lindy travels opposite to the geese Every spring after the ice breaks up on the river he walks in from the north along the tracks Even though his name is Lindbergh everyone calls him Lindy Even me He has a way of being polite without saying anything He smells like campfires and the outdoors Lindy carries a big burlap sack of soapstone pieces Folks ask where he’s found all that soapstone He just laughs and tells them Somewhere between here and there Our place is one of the stops on his yearly journey to the south We operate the lodge between the river and the train tracks Lindy trades his carving 1
