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Show in my father's house/ 124 You can't know how good a hot meal tasted after a week of soda crackers. And Maude gave us a table and chairs for our tent. She was so good to us! It's hard to understand how the rest of her family could be so queer." "When we'd been there about a week, Saul and Jake came running into camp and yelled for your daddy to come. They took him into the desert and showed him a big rattlesnake they'd killed with rocks. Well, I was ready to turn around and head for home. Even living without Rulon didn't seem as terrible as that place. But I got used to it, even though frightening things happened all the time. Once, one of the girls came into the tent and found a rattlesnake coiled on top of her sewing basket. Thank goodness she didn't reach for a needle and thread before she saw it!" "Another time, LaVona left meeting early and lit a candle before going to bed. By then we had two extra tents -- three of the mothers living in each of the two smaller tents, while your daddy kept the big one so that whoever stayed with him could have privacy for the night. Anyway, LaVona was going to read scripture - Thank goodness! Because there was a huge tarantula about this big around..." She drew a circle on her palm, "...sitting on her white pillow case, just begging her to put her head down." My mother shuddered. "There were all kinds of spiders. And scorpions. Once a Mexican woman was dying from a black-widow spider bite, and her sons and husband |
