Judd
Mortimer Lewis. May 15,1939 714
JUBILEE’S PARDNER.
Yesterday was Sunday and
bright and bammy. I got out of bed and let Jubilee down by his rope and told my
short britches it was up to them if they would come along or not,so they came
along when I went downstairs to take,out the ashes and milk the cows, and the
bunch came all except the Lost Bag of Tripe and I took the milk in and strained
it and fed my face and Youniss and Feeble and Maggie came, and we went over to
Angela's and it was such a nice day the doors was all open, and while we were
skating on the swimming pool the Lost Bag of Tripe came in looking smirky and I
asted him what crooked business he had been up to and he said nothing, and then
all at once Angela's mother said she thought she heard someone in the front of
the house and we all kicked off our skates and followed her in to see who it
was and there was a big man and a skinny lady and a sloppy-nosed boy there just
inside the front door and Angela's mother said, “Did you wish to see
someone?" and the skinny lady said, “No; we thought we would like to go
through the house,” and Angela's mother looked supprized, but she said
"Certainly," and she took them all through the upstairs and then
allover the downstairs, and they liked the swimming pool and everything, and
when they was going out three women and a young man came in and said they was
going through the house, so they went all over it, and when they got out in the
kitchen one of the ladies opened the refrigerator and looked in it, and said,
“Why, they've even got stuff in the refrigerator, and they asted all about the
swimming pool and thought it was fine, and when they was going out a girl and
her father and mother came and
said they thought they would go over the house
and see how they liked it, so they started, and then we had to go to Sunday
school, and Angela's mother was certainly looking funny. When we got back from
Sunday school there was a lot more people there looking through the house, and
Angela said there had been a procession of them all the morning, and more kept
coming all the afternoon, and Angela's mother said it must be because spring
was here. When I had fed my face this morning and we had went over to Angela's
there wasn't anybody there but the teacher and Angela and her mother, and her
mother said, “I have been wondering if any of you children knowed where this
came from” and she held up a big pasteboard sign and the printing on it said,
'OPEN F0R INSEECTION." and the Lost Hag of Tripe said, 'Oh, yes, I found
that yesterday morning and when I came here I set it up by the side of your
front door so I would have it when I went home, but I forgot it.” The teacher
and Angela's mother hollered, and we got in the auto with the teacher and
Diabetes and was took to school. I felt like pushing the Lost Bag of Tripe out
on his face, the dirty crook, but it was certainly a good joke on Angela’s
mother.