- Georgie's still at the funeral, trying to tune out Reverend Leland and focus on the Wisconsin River instead.
- She recalls that, earlier in the year, giant flocks of pigeons nested everywhere around, but their nesting ended right before Agatha ran away.
- Georgie thinks of a day at the end of March when the pigeons came to Placid, Wisconsin, the flocks blocking the sun and dropping, well, pigeon droppings, everywhere.
- That day, Agatha took a parasol and ran into the middle of the street, toward the approaching flocks. She held the parasol up and spun under the pigeons as the flock broke around her shape.
- She called to Georgie, but Georgie was too scared to come.
- Georgie finally cries when she remembers how she was too afraid to spin with Agatha, and she runs away from Mount Zion Cemetery when Grandfather Bolte tries to comfort her.