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...know, this is my first talk in a county square, and I brought my wife and family to watch over me while I give this first courthouse-square speech here in Warren. I want to be Governor and I'm willing to work at it. Now folks, Mama got kinda excited and she lost one of her gloves. Any of you find it, why I'd appreciate it kindly if you'd just give it to that lady there-that's my mother, folks." Murmured an onlooker: "Chris is a good oP boy, and Arkansas people...
...There is Mama Isabelle, who licks her chops over a monthly alimony check, all that is left of Hubby No. 1. Mama has two young daughters, a pudgy, harmless lunatic and a redheaded spitfire. Mama and the redhead are so close that they not only share the same name, but split it: the daughter is called Isa, and Mama...
...Drug. But his parents are not a bad sort, merely ignorant, stubborn, anxious, self-righteous and poor. Papa is a Swedish immigrant, a brooding, phlegmatic day laborer who can rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week...
When a child in Switzerland would come home crying to mother that the teacher had given him or her a paddling, the chances are nine out of ten that mama would follow up with more of same. I suggest Miss Graner work over Roscoe some more...
...lunch for months; instead, he saved the $1.75 a week that he got to buy his school lunch, ate a bigger dinner at home. His diary of the time is a record of gleeful acquisitiveness: "Fine day. Papa gave me a quarter to put in my purse"; "Fine day. Mama gave me ten cents...