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Show 51 pagan babies we could have bought and saved v/ith that money. That's how the money wars started. Meanwhile Helen started calling Andrew her savior. And Neda started to change. I had to beat the crap out of Funly Funster and Stinky Jinx everyday just to keep my sanity, though at the time it was pure impulse. Red didn't like little Andrew dressed up like the Infant of xxx Prague and he xxraxxxa sure didn't like Joseph dressed up like the Blessed Virgin Mary. He hated me because I didn't play sports and I didn't join the cub scouts and I beat on all his friends kids and was starting to hang out with Stubie Stucka who was a known juvenile delinquent, but at least I didnft wear any silly clothes. Red saw what was happening to Stinky, xxa Big Dick Jinx never said anything so Red never said anything, but I saw him quiver the evening he was out back watering the lawn and old Mrs. Spinks told him how cute she thought it all was with Helen and Joseph and Andrew marching around the backyard xxa all dressed up and sprinkling holy water on the fruit trees. Mrs. Spinks was all Saixx Catholic and almost dead so she really got x a kick out of that kind of stuff. Red was supposed to pick pears that evening and usually when he picked pears he put his ladder to the top of the tree and dragged up armfuls of baskets and when they all got full he started throwing pears down to me. He made me wear a mit and a £HXXXSXXX btxxxxi football helmet and pads but none of them did me any good that night. He dented my helmet. He knocked my left arm off. He put a hole in my xxx chest. I went in the house and got my bighwooden Prince Valiant shield and just sat there under it, warding off xaxx-xxxxxxxka pear bombs like thunder. They came pt, pt, yi through the leaves then BOOM. Every once in a while I stuck the mit out and Red knocked it right off. Boy, he had an eye. "Can't you catch," he yelled at me. "No," I said. Red came down with the pears and made me run around and pick up all the ones left scattered on the ground. He watched me the whole time and when I got done putting all the stray pears in the bushel basket he said, "Wait a minute, stand there, don't move." I picked up the shield, but he didn't have anything in his |