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Show 65 Willie Experiments wif Deaf Red never let anybody escape Down-down Day. He made everybody wait till he got back with the food, he made everybody watch while it got unpacked, he made everybody watch it get put away. Then we had to sit there with him and wait until somebody did anything, which was a little like standing in front of a firing squad only the person at the wall had the gun. One a Down-down Day's Eve, while helping Helen with the dishes, Neda suggested we draw lots to see who wai would speak first. "I don't think that's fair," I said. "We should rotate." "What about Joseph and Andrew?" said Neda. "We'll give them till the age of reason. After First Communion it should be open season." "Rotation won't work," said Helen. "Red will xxgxi figure it out." "I'll take him if you give me an allowance," Neda said to Helen. "Don't underestimate your father," said Helen. "He's simple but complex." "Like Japanese poetry on a hand grenade," said Neda. "Yes," said Helen, xxaagxxxmxxxxa though I'm sure that shot over her about as high as it xa shot over me. Stuff like that helped convince Helen that Neda was a genius. "I've talked to my confessor about this," she said. "It's my responsibility. I'll xxxxxxx take the line of fire." Helen was a brave woman, smart too, but not very complex, like Einstein in a fox hole. I v/as feeling pretty depressed that Down-down Day's Eve. Xxwaxixi I went over to Stt.Y\Ki Jinx's but he v/as playing dolls with xx his little sister. RxHixxxxxxxaxxxgxxxiiaixxxxxx k HX8RX Funly Funster was making bullets with Jimbo and Georgie Gorky had gone off to burn shacks with Stubie Stucka. That Georgie Gorky - Stubie Stucka alliance was boding ill. I thought about getting myself a gun or a knife. Maybe Neda could steal a knife for me. |