not sorry

Daphne and Jeannie were planning a supper for Earl and Marion, and she was really excited about it. I heard her tell Mama that I couldn’t bring any of my friends because they were not good enough to meet Earl. Now I thought Earl was the scum of the earth. His mother and father had a big family and his mother worked out in the field working beets, and he wasn’t doing much of anything to help. So when Papa made me go out in the field to help the kids in the beet field and Daphne didn’t have to go. I didn’t like it, but I worked all day. Papa told me to come in early and bring the cows. As I drove the cows up the street to the house, here came Daphne, Earl, Jeannie, and Marion in the car, they never said a word to me. Here I was cold, dirty and mad. And they didn’t speak to me. They went on down town.

When I got in the house I wanted to take a bath and get warm. I went to get into the bathtub; there in it were two big fat hens' feathers and all. I picked up them hens and took them out in the road where the cars had made deep ruts and dropped them hens in it. Went in the house and cleaned up, walked down town and gather up my crowd come back pick up the hens and we walked up to the Dry Lake, made a fire and the boys cleaned the hens and we cooked them over the fire. I never got one bite of them.

We were all standing around having fun when here came Earl and Marion in the crowd to let me know he knew what we had done. On my way home mother came out and told me to go right to bed so Papa wouldn’t get on me and make things worse. I never said anything as we went in. Daphne comes in and says to Papa that I couldn’t come in the dining room where they were talking. I figured if I was going to get in trouble I would get it over with. So I went over where Papa was sitting with Gene on his lap, and sat down by him. All he said to me with his eyes twinkling was “ You better go to bed.” All I did was go upstairs to bed. The only thing I was sorry for, was the extra work I put mother through.

From then on Earl tried to make friends with me. He and Daphne would take me down to their place. I always felt like a giant around them, because their whole family was little people, so I just quit going with them. I did every thing I could to break them up