Judd
Mortimer Lewis May
6,1939 707
JUBILEE'S PARDNER.
Saturday,
and no school to go to today, and when me and. Jubilee woke up we was glad of
it. I got out of bed and let Jubilee down by his rope and plunged into my short
britches and, went down and got the pail and went out and found the barn and
the cows in the same place and was milking them when the bunch came, and Banty
was all excited and he said his father didn't have a job painting and had told
him he might take the truck to go out in the country on a picnic if he wanted
to, and Red said to less ast my grandfather to go fishing with us, so all the
bunch skun out for their poles and I took the milk in to strain it, and when
Youniss and. Feeble and Maggie came I told everybody about Banty's truck and
said we would go fishing if my grandfather would go along, and Youniss put her
arms around his neck and her cheek against his'n and said she knowed he would
be glad to ,and he made out like he didn't want to, and then he said he would
go and. just to show me what a good fella he is I could use the new bait and he
would use a shimmie wiggler, because he didn’t care if he caught any fishes or
not. So my mother filled a basket with eats and I got both my fishpoles ready
and then Banty honked out in front and all the b1inch was with him, and we
drove a long ways and got to the same lake where my grandfather and Judge had
Fished, and my grandfather found a nice smooth grassy bank to fish from, and he
got everything ready before I did and was the first one to cast out, and he
kept jerking his line and winding it in and nothing happened, and I fixed
Younisses pole and flang it out for her, and then I fixed mine with my
grandfather's new bait on it, and the rest of the bunch was fishing with worms,
and I flang out the bait my grandfather had made and that he didn't catch
anything with, and I had turned my head to say something to Youniss just as my
bait hit the water and I almost got the pole jerked out of my hand, and my
grandfather hollered to me to watch out, and when I pulled my bass up the bank
my grandfather looked at it and said, "Well,I be damn!" and he said
it must weigh four pounds, and then he told me I didn’t cast right and to let
him show me, and he took my pole and began to hall them in so fast he forgot to
give it back, so I helped Youniss with her pole and she caught one and the
bunch began to catch perch on their worms and the fish bit at everything but
the shimmie wiggler and then the sun got up higher and they stopped biting and
we smeared into the lunch and went home, and my grandfather talked about the
new bait and what a good fisherman he is all the way home. Youniss had a good
time so I didn't care because I caught only one bass. Everybody had some fish
to take home and we are certainly going to have fun this vacation. I took three
fish to Angela's and Angela said she was off of us for life because we didn't
take her along. We can't take her every place.