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Show 67 "When you and George have used up your cattle you'll be on your own. He won't be able to take care of you. " "We're going to sell the cattle and buy a farm and I'll have half of it. Won't be workin' for you no more for nothin. " "Ase, the cattle are yours to do with as you please, but if you take them and leave, just stay with George. Don't come whining back here. " So they left, driving Uncle Ase's herd down the street. Uncle George left us one bit of instruction. "You don't pronounce p-i-a-n-o 'peano,'" he told us. "It should be 'pyano'. " Papa never saw either Ase or George again. Mama recognized this as a mere respite, however. "He'll be back when his cattle are gone, " she predicted. Aunt May lived in Southern Utah. The two older boys, Alva and Evan Charlesworth were by her first husband. Alva sometimes stayed with us, but Evan had spent his life from six until twenty-one in a reform school. When he was released he became one of our family until his marriage. Mama often wept about the mar shall taking him away when he was little, for stealing things which he claimed he "found in the road. " Trying to escape lengthened his term. "The poor little fellow, on behind the marshall with his bare legs dangling in the cold! " Evan's mother denied his guilt, shielded him, and advised him to bury the stolen goods in the back yard, was otherwise |
