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every time I'd look at him, he was watching me like a little watch dog. He also told me that when he'd see another boy talking to me he'd get mad, but would never say anything. He said I used to wear a brown dress to school sometimes and he said he would have loved to have pulled that dress off from me and stuck fire to it so I told him I hated it too. Sister Laura bought the material and made the dress for me and I told my daddy I hated it and he said whatever you do don't tell Laura because she had to squeeze her pennies to get that. I said I hope she don't squeeze any more.
The first time I ever paid any attention to him was the night they shivareed Stella and Emile when they got married. They all came in for refreshments after the shivaree. Unless some of you who reads this doesn't understand what a shivaree means, I'll try to explain the best I can. You see, when a man or a woman has already been married once, a bunch (posse) of men get together and get anything they can to make a racket (noise) with, such as dumbbells, band saws, drums, washtubs with a hammer, guns, dynamite, and many other instruments as such a noise you've never heard. It would wake the dead. My father was in the Civil War so the night that first clap of dynamite went off my daddy jumped up and grabbed some one, I don't remember who, but he said "I gollies" children, war has broken out, but within a minute he realized what is was because they had shivareed him and his second wife (Irene).
I started to tell the first time I ever paid any attention to Willie Hover was the night of the shivaree and he was sitting on a big trunk kinda back of a door so when I served him cake, he got up the nerve to say how about letting me come to see you, but I never answered so that Sunday afternoon he brought a girl who was foolish about him with him to see me so that's the way our courtship started. He had been going to see Artie Lot a buddy of his. That was Amelia's brother. He said every time he'd go, she'd get him by the hand and say come on let's go in the parlor, that's what is now called the living room and she'd play the organ and sing awhile and then get the Sears and Roebuck catalog and show him the rings and bracelets she liked so then her mother and daddy both were crazy about Willie so they'd serve Amelia and him lemonade and cake and say when you and Amelia get married all what they were going to do for them. Willie told me that was what disgusted him with even going to see her, so when he
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