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Jim Howley's Letter

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She states that when she was no older than the boys, that she herself had went to the circus. Hester was a loyal and faithful wife, but she knew that her boy’s needed some freedom from working all the time. She felt that since her boys had worked non-stop for quite a while; they should be rewarded for their hard work on the farm. Hester then went on to say and comepare Jim Howley’s boys to her’s and William’s. She stated,” Oh I know Jim Howley’s boys… carrying on when they go, but our boys ain’t that sort an’ you know it, William.” Hester was trying to campare, good to bad, the best way she knew how to. She then went on shaking out socks and went on. Then she said something else. She said, “ Nobody was ever hurt by goin’ to a circus.” She stated all of the fond memories she had of when she went as a …show more content…

William all of a sudden said, “No, there was only one camel. The other was a drom edary.” In astonishment of what she had just heard, Hester peered around the lamp and just peered at her husband. She said,” why, William, how come you to know?” As a response, William, with a paper in his hands, folded it up, and answered with a heavy hesitation,” I was there too.” When his wife heard him say this, her interest flashed up enormously! They had been married for years, and Hester to believe, now she knows! She told him, “It seems queer I never saw you, when you was little, to remember about you. But back then you back creek folks never had anything to do with us gap people.” Hester knew his father had been stricter than him. He told her the reason of why he had gotten to go. He said, “I reckon I shouldn’t ‘a gone, “slowly”, but boys will do foolish things. I had done a good year/deal of fox hunting the winter before, and father let me keep the money. I took the money and paid Tom smith’s tap to weed the corn for me, an’ I slipped off unbeknownst to father and went to the

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