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them in your bloomers until we get back to the dormitory we'll have a feast. In case you don't know what bloomers are, I'll tell you. Its pants made of dark material and the legs have elastic which makes the pants come up above you knees and blouse. The bloomers are over your other underwear. So the girls would get all around Plorine as we called her and talk up a storm and entertain her while others were back of her getting the Pralines. They were really good, full of pecans. I'm ashamed of it now because that poor old soul might have gone hungry. Why do young folks do such terrible things? Then at night, mostly on moonlight nights, the Sisters would take us out on the wharf and some would go in swimming and others sat and talked to the nuns. They were all real sweet and kind. I was scared to death of the water so one night the girls kept begging me to let her teach me how to swim and she said then you won't have to be afraid. So I finally ventured in and the next thing I knew I was up to my chin in water so I managed some way to get her to take me back up on the wharf. So that was my first and last. Some of the prettiest singing I've ever heard was out there at night over the water. I could tell many more things while there in school but I'm getting tired of reminiscing. Willie's oldest sister (Pearl Scott) lived in Louisburg or Mandiville, La., I forget which. Anyway she was married to Walter Scott and they had two children, a girl and a boy. So when she was taken very ill Walter brought she and the children to Napoleon to her mothers and she wasn't there long when she passed away on Christmas Eve. So then the children, Letha & Coby stayed on at their grandmothers for a year when their father married a sixteen year old girl so then Walter took his children back with he and his second wife. He had two fine sons by he and Estell, but their marriage was not a happy one and the children resented Estell taking their mothers place. Letha was twelve and Coby nine or ten. One day Mrs. Hover heard Coby just a hollering and she ran to see what had happened, and Letha was everlasting whipping him and she said Letha what do you mean and Letha said, Grandma children have got to be whipped. When they first come to their grandmothers, Letha told her one day that when Coby and me sass you, you tell us because we don't know what sass is.
On Christmas Eve night Dave, one of her brothers was supposed to be married but on account of her being so low he decided to put the wedding off for awhile but when he went in to tell her she said no; you go get dressed and come let me see how
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