Judd
Mortimer Lewis May 8,1939 708
JUBILEE'S PARDNER
Yesterday was as another Sunday, and it ain't going to be so very
long now
till Sunday school will be the only school we will have to go to,
and that
will be all right with me. I pushed Jubilee out of bed and got out
and let
him down by his rope and went down and took out the ashes and told
the bass- burner it wouldn't be long till it was out in the barn for its
vacation and
then I took the pail out to the barn to milk the dummed brutes and
the bunch
came and was talking about our fishing trip and all the fun we
had, and I
took the milk in to strain it and Youniss and Feeble and Maggie
came and I fed my face and my father and mother and unkle and ant had fed their
faces and was setting talking when my grandfather got up and went out to his
green- house and me and the girls and Jubilee went with him and Banty told him
he was the best fisherman he ever seen, and my grandfather looked pleased and
said he had caught strange fish in all parts of the world, and Feeble said to
tell us about the time he caught the first of the little people on his hook and
line, and my grandfather said he was never so hungry in his life, and Feeble
hollered, “YOU didn't eat him” and my grandfather said of course he didn't, and
then he said he knowed we was trying to work him to tell us about the little
people before vacation started and he had work to do and we ought to be on our
way to Sunday school, and he stood in the door grinning at us when we went
away, and we went around and got Angela and she had a bunc of the first
lielocks of the season to take to our teacher, and when lasted her for one of
them she told me I could have all of them, but I told her I only wanted one,
and when she gave it to me I gave it to Youniss, and then Angela paisted me in
the face with the whole bunch, and her mother said, "Why, darling! If and
Angela said, "I don't care:" and I said "I don't care
either," and her mother laughed and said “If nobody else cares I don't see
why I Should” so we went to Sunday school and the teacher thought the lielocks
was beautiful, and when Sunday school was out we went out tin the woods and
found a lot of bluets around the rotten stumps and a lot of dogwood blossoms
and went to my house looking like a lot of Christmas trees, and then the bunch
skun out and I had to go in to dinner and we had fish for dinner and my mother
said she wasn't going to buy chicken when she had fish in the house, and that
was all right with me, because fish don't have wing tips and necks for a little
boy to eat, and after dinner I snuck out the back way through the barn so I
wouldn't have to mind Annabelle Lee, and we all went down below the damn to
make another damn with mud and rocks and we all got plastered
and I had to go to bed early so my mother could wash my britches
and today was Monday and I was glad of it and we spent the time after school
sliding on the swimming pool at Angela's.