Judd
Mortimer Lewis May 5,1939
706
JUBILEE'S PARDNER.
Tomorrow will be Saturday and I will be glad
of it. I got out of bed and let Jubilee down by his rope and told my short
britches to come on and went down and slammed the door to the bassburner so my
father would think I was taking out the ashes, and then I grabbed the pail and
went out to see if I could find a barn with some cows in it to milk, and I did,
and the bunch came and then Youniss and Feeble and Maggie came and I fed my
face and we went out to the greenhouse and Maggie said to my grandfather that
he didn't tell us anything about the little people yesterday, and he said he
wasn't going to today either because he had to get caught up with his work, so
we went out and was going to go to Angela's but Youniss said to less go and see
Judge so we hiked out for there and he was in mud up to his elbows but he was
glad to see us, and when I said to him that that was certainly a good bait my
grandfather took with him yesterday he laughed and said he didn't know when he
had so much fun he said my grandfather casted and casted and never got a strike
and Judge used a shimmie-wiggler and pulled them in as fast as he could throw
his bait out, and every time my grandfather would cast and not get a strike he
would use a lot of big words and every time Judge would land a fish my
grandfather would use a lot more but he was too stubborn to change baits, so
Judge gave him all of his fish but one. I didn't say anything about what my
grandfather had told me and we went to school, and then we went and slid on
Angela's swimming pool, and then the bunch wanted to go to the greenhouse and
see my grandfather, so we did, and he was setting down watching his plants grow
and looking grouchy and I bet he was thinking about the fish he didn't catch,
and Feeble said "Did you find the little people with an airplane?"
and my grandfather said there wasn't any airplanes those days, and then Maggie
said she bet he jumped out of a balloon and came down in his parachute, and my
grandfather said he hadn't never been up in a balloon, then Youniss asted him
how he could use a parachute if he didn't have an airplane and hadn't never
been up in a balloon, and he said that was one of the things he was going to
tell us when vacation came and for us to run along and stop pestering him, and
then Youniss went in and asted my mother could I take Anna-belle Lee and go to
her house to spupper when I had milked and if they would come over after
supper, and my mother said that would be a good idee, so I milked and we went,
and when we got there there was a note for Youniss and her folks had went to
Feeble's to eat and spend the evening so we locked up and went over there, and
there wasn't anyone home when my father and mother got there, and when I got
home with Annabelle Lee she was asleep and my father and mother was mad and
told me to go to bed and never do such a thing again. I get blamed for
everything.