Judd
Mortimer Lewis May 17,1939
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JUBILEE'S PARDNER.
Wednesday, and it looked
like it had rained last night, but me and Jubilee didn't have no place to go so
it was all right with us. I let him down by the rope in his teeth and pored
myself into my short britches and went down and got the pail and took it out to
get whatever the cows had to offer, and when Red came a little while after the
bunch got there Red whose father is a huckster brang two bananas and an apple
to give to String and String took the apple and said “So you thought if you
brang me these I wouldn't paist you like I was going to, did you?" And Red
said he brang them because he was sorry he gave String such a licking
yesterday, and String said, ”You poor empty noodle can you couldn't lick one
side of me. Can you do this?" and he gave his hands a twist and broke the
apple in two as slick as if it had been cut with a knife, and Red had been
taking the skin off of a banana and it wasn't such a good one, and he said, “No
, but I can do this”, and he plastered it tall over String's face and rubbed it
in before String could find a place to lay the halves of the apple down and
then he paisted String a couple of good ones before he got the banana out of
his eyes, and then they really fit while the Lost Bag of Tripe grabbed and et
the other banana, and then my grandfather come in to see what it was all about
and they was clunched and fighting on the floor and he told them to break away
and they didn't, so he picked up the barn pail and amptied it allover them and
they had to come up for air and my grandfather patted them on their shoulders
and told them they was both good fighters and to shake hands with each other,
and they done it, and then the bunch went down to the damn to make a fire and
dry them out and I finished milking and took the milk in to strain it and there
was no one in the greenhouse but me and the girls with my grandfather when I
got done feeding my facet and Fee'ble asted my grandfather did he barbecue the
little elephant that time, and he said when he had skun and dressed it he made
a hole in the ground and made a fire in it and when it got half full of coals
he stuck a green stick through the elephant and hung it over the coals for
almost a day and then he cut it up in teentsy-weentsy pieces for the little
people and saved one of the hind legs for himself and they all et till they
almost popped. He said it tasted like pork only better and then he said, ”I
thought I said I wouldn't tell you about the little people till vacation,” I and we alughed and
skun out to get the bunch and go to Angela's. That was once we put one over on
him. I would like to see a giant big enough to barbecue one of our kinds of
elephants. When we got to school String had a shanty over one eye and Red's mouth
was knocked crooked. They was both proud of it the teacher asted them where the
explosion was and they only grinned at her, and it certainly looked funny when
Red grinned.