Judd
Mortimer Lewis May 13,1939 713
JUBILEE'S PARDNER.
Saturday. And bright and bammy again. I got
out of bed and let Jubilee down his rope and slid into my short britches and
went down and carried out the ashes and got the pail and went out to see if the
barn and the sows was still there, and they were, and the bunch came and was
glad it was Saturday and they wanted to know what we was going to do and where
we was going to go and I said the first thing was for me to clean out my stable
and they could do that for me while I was feeding my face and Yot said, “So we
can.” I was supprized and it made me feel pretty good, so I took the milk in to
strain it and feed my face, and Youniss and Feeble and Maggie came and I
hurried up and et and while the girls stayed to help my mother with the dishes
I skun out for the barn, and the dirty crooks hadn’t touched it, and when I
started to ball them out for a lot of lires Yot said he said they could clean
out the stable but he didn't say they would, and they gave me the laugh, and
then they stood around and told me how to do while I cleaned it. When I had got
it done and we all went to go in the
greenhouse my grandfather had the door locked and he looked through the glass
and put his thumb on his nose at us. I guess he didn't want us bothering him,
so I yoo-hooed for the girls and we went to Angela's, and the ice on the
swimming pool is just as hard as if it was winter. I bet we are the only bunch
that has got a pool to swim in winter and skate on in summer. Youniss whispered
to me and asted me if I was glad Angela wasn't going to Colorado this summer,
and I said why should I be glad to have her around all summer, and Youniss said
that was what she would like to know. I was glad but I didn't have to say so.
We was talking about how Jubilee could be pulled up by a rope and Angela’s
mother was supprized when I said he could hang from a rope all day, so I went
out and got a rope from Diabetes and I had Jubilee take hold of it and we put
it over a door and pulled him up and tied the rope to the doorknob and Angela's
mother looked at his watch to see how long he could hang and I told her she
didn't need a watch but calendar, and she thought that was funny. Then Angela's
cat Penelopy came in and seen him hanging and reached up and began to play with
his tail and when Jubilee whined she sank her claws into it and Jubilee let go
of the rope and the cat skun out with him after her. Then we all went to sand
mountain and rolled down hill all day and it began to rail and we got went and
the sand stuck to us and we went back to Angela's and her mother said we was
the pollutedest and happiest bunch she had ever seen and she made us all put on
our bathing suits while Nashturshum took our clothes away to dry them and shake
the sand out of them, and we had some custerd pie and cookies and chocolate and
I didn't go home till milking time and I wouldn't of went then if I didn't have
to.