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Show 31 saved from the #10 tithe she was supposed to give to the church. She insisted Stanley give her all #10 to give on Sundays. Stanley gave her twenty dollars and she always kept half. She'd saved all of Frances's clothes and now mended them and gave them to Helen. Jon wore little Stan's hand-me-downs, David wore Jon's. She extracted what she could from David's paper route, though he wanted to quit and help out at the store, fixxxxanxixa But Bush felt one son too many already sacrificed to that. She wouldn't let David quit. Bush xxoqcx managed all she could manage but she couldn't manage Stanley. In the mornings he moped at Pell's with his breakfast beer until lunch when he went down to the Bay Front and vainly attempted to collect some of the rents. But the fathers were out looking for work, or like him, drunk,**the mothers harried and drawn with eyes that made him want to cry. After knocking on a few doors he'd leave the building and.lunch on the hill above the docks, watching the oar boats with their long rusty hulls load xxx KXXXXX on the peir and the lake tankers unload petroleum and coal. Then he'd return to the store until Bxx Jon came and go out to walk a in his woods. He would just have a to hold out. Soon the Depression would end, Hoover said it would soon end, and he himself had voted for Hoover because he didn't want to vote Irish, and when it ended the Ford plant would come. His land and apartments would be worth a fortune, and people would buy furniture again. He'd keep a part of the woods for himself. Maybe he'd even build there. He could drive further south if he wanted to hunt. And the kids would be educated. They'd have xx£ degrees, money. His daughters would marry wealthy men. He just had to hold out. By the time he got home in the evening he was good and drunk. Holding out was much easier then. Waiting seemed the only rational choice, besides, what could he do while he was so drunk? He didn't eat dinner because by then he'd lost his appetite. Kxxxxxxxixxxxi xaxixxiaiXxxxax He let Jon close the store himself, though Bush usually sent David to help. Stanley didn't want to be bothered. He needed rest. Holding out exhausted him. He passed out on the couch and no longer bothered to sleep in bed. fc One night- Stanley awoke with a familiar but almost forgotten |