Chapter 14 - Page 197 - New Addition To The Family

   “I haven’t thought about it,” Jim admitted, “but I suppose we could go flying early today.”

   Jim and his new family finished eating breakfast and before long they were in the double engine plane, flying at fifteen hundred feet. Shanha was too excited to be scared as the plane slipped through the sky at a hundred and forty miles per hour. When they passed over the village to land, Rhasha showed Shanha their house.

   Shanha was thrilled. “Look Papa, look at our house! It looks so small.”

   Jim looked down, just to please Shanha. He smiled and asked, “How do you know that’s our house? They all look the same.”

   Shanha looked at Rhasha. “Yeah Mama, how do you know which house is ours?”

   “Because, sweetheart,” Rhasha replied, “it’s right across the street from the hospital.”

   “Papa, you knew that,” Shanha scolded.

   Jim and Rhasha giggled.

   “Papa, could you teach me how to fly a plane, like Mama?”

   “You need to learn how to drive a car first,” Jim told her.

   “OK, can you teach me how to drive a car . . . tomorrow?”

   Jim was impressed by how similar in temperament Rhasha and Shanha were. “Sweetheart,” he said, “you have to go to school tomorrow. Besides, you can’t learn to drive until you’re sixteen.”

   “Is that a long time, Papa?”

   “When you’re sixteen, you’ll be almost as big as Rhasha,” he said.