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I was always with them going to the country to pick up livestock: cows, pigs to butcher for the market. I helped at the slaughter pen. I learned quite a bit about butchering. Issac was my friend. One time I broke my arm and he said a prayer over it.
My first paying job was at the A&G Theater roasting and selling peanuts.
Leonide (Chick), Juliette, Lucille and me got along fine. Being the youngest the girls babied me a lot.
My oldest brother, Emile, and I got along okay. We worked together on the delivery truck and were pals.
Edgar (Nonk) and I, as we got older didn't fight as much as when we were kids. He was a good jazz drum player. He played with a band made up of cousins and Uncles. I worked with them so I could get into the dances.
I remember relatives coming to the house, Aunt Lulule and her daughters and Aunt Elise. I didn't spend too much time at home as a young boy like my sisters did. I was always running outside to play on the beach or in my work shop.
But, I remember that Mama helped everybody that came to ('	our	door for food because of the depression. I loved that lady.
I left Bay St. Louis at the age of eighteen to live with my older brother Emile in Chicago. I joined the Navy and would visit my home whenever I had leave. I was on a ship in Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941. The events of that day are recounted in a newspaper interview on the 50th anniversary. In the chaos that followed my parents received a telegram and letter reporting me dead.
Those were the good old days.
Toe Toe Perre