26 Aug 2023 4:51 pm
Miss Adella’s principal was Miss Lela Fern.Warcok » 26 Aug 2023, 4:12 pm » wrote: ↑ This one night, two of my brothers came and woke me up in the middle of the night. And they said they had a surprise for me. So they took me to the barn up in the loft and there was my oldest brother, Dan, with Alice, Alice Jardine.
I mean, picture a girl who just took a nosedive from the ugly tree and hit every branch coming down. And... and Dan's got his shirt off and he's working on this bra and he's tryin to get it off and all of a sudden Shawn just screams out, "Danny you're a young man, don't do it!"
And so Alice Jardine hears this and she screams and she jumps up and she tries to get running out of the barn but she's still got this shirt over her head. She goes running right into the wall and knocks herself out. So now Danny's just so mad at us. He starts coming after us, but... but at the same time Alice is over there unconscious.
He's gotta wake her up, So he grabs her by a leg and he's dragging her. At the same time he picks up a shovel. And he's going after Shawn, and Shawn's saying, "What are you trying to hit me for? I just did you a favor!" And so this makes Dan more angry. He tries to swing this thing, he looses the shovel, goes outta his grasp and hits a kerosene lantern; the thing explodes, the whole barn almost goes up because of this thing.
That was it.
I had never struck a human being in my entire life before I hit William and I hit him out of instinct.
I was all I could do to not fall on my knees and tell him how sorry I was and beg forgiveness.
So when he came to I grabbed his hand and helped him up, and the principal was coming up the stairs and I said Miss Lela Fern William has slipped and fallen, and landed on his face.
Miss Lela Fern, said to William, that’s very tragic.
Would you like to have Coach Randy (who wielded a big wood paddle) look at that injury to see if you need an ice pack?
William could only mutter No, as his mouth was full of blood.
She looked at my right hand and said what happened to your hand, and I said I must have skinned it trying to help William.
We sat in Miss Adella’s class and John Bobinmeyer couldn’t quit laughing and Betty who lived close to William by Cliqout, kept smiling at me every time I’d look her way.
Betty, was a cheerleader for the 73/4 Tigers.
William played center.
I was the manager. I wore slacks and a tie and a blazer to the games, and was second in command to Randy.