Judd
Mortimer Lewis. May 10,1939 710
Jubilees Pardner
Wednesday, the middle of the week. Each week
is like a hill. The first two days a fella is climbing up away from Sunday and
the~ Wednesday is the top of the hill and he goes sliding down toardst
Saturday. When me and Jubilee woke up I was thinking about the way Angela's
mother wunk at me when she
said she was supprized
none of us had pushed Angela in the creek. If her
mother wants her pushed in I am the one that
can do it, but I would hate to push her in and then find out that her mother
didn't want me to. I let Jubilee down by his rope and put on my short britches
and went down and got the pail and went to the barn and told the cows the grass
would soon be up and they would soon be going to the pasture and they turned
their heads and
looked at me like a girl looks at a
caterpillar, and while I was doing my milking the bunch came and they was all
glad it would soon be summer except Ebbie. He don't like summer because in
summer the snakes are out and he is afraid of them. He don't even like to have
us talk about them. He won't even touch the dried rattlesnake skin I brang from
Texas. When Youniss and Feeble and Maggie came and we was out in the
greenhouse,.H1eeble said to my grand- father,"I bet the little people was
supprized at how strong you was," and
my grandfather said,'fYes,I didn't reelize it
till one day I came back to my camp with an elephant under my arm---" I
hollered,t “An elephant?” and then
he said the elephants was about the size of
Jubilee, and then he made out like he was mad and told us to get out of there
or we would have the whole story before vacation came, so we skun out but we
sure wanted to hear more about the elephant. We got to school in time to meet
the teacher when Diabetes brung
her in the auto and she told us we all looked
sorry because vacation was com- ing so soon, and then she laughed at us and
went inside, and when school let
out we got Angela and went out to the
railroad bridge and we asted the watch- man if any trains v vas coming and he
said not before night, so we went out on the biidge and I told Angela to never
jump in the river on the side we was
on because the old bridge that got wrecked by
the flood was on that side and she might hit it,and she said if I thought she
would jump off on either side my brain was a worse wreck than the old bridge,
so then we went acrosst to
the other side and I told her that was the
side to jump off of, and she said anyone would be crazy to jump off of it, and
I told her the Lost Bag of Tripe
was always trying to jump off and we had to
hold him, and. I garbbed him and hollered at him not to jump and we scuffled
and I gave h1m a push and 1n he went, and Angela screamed, and the Lost Bag of
Tripe swum out and came up the bank with a handfull of mud but I ducked just
when he was going to I let me have it and it hit the watchman who had come
running to see what the
screaming was about and we all skun out
laughing so hard we could hardly run.