When I did not come home they thought surely I
was drowned, but I was born for a different fate. Sometimes in my years
of roaming afterwards I wished I had been drowned as they thought. They
were so glad to see me again that there was no whipping, and I went to
school next morning promising to be a better boy.
A BASEBALL GAME
I was fast becoming initiated in the ways of the Devil. There was
nothing that I would not do. I remember one time when mother thought I
was going to school but found out I was "on the hook." She decided to
punish me, and that night after I had gone to sleep she came into my
room and took all my clothes except my shirt. I certainly was in a fix.
I had to catch for my team and I would not miss that game of ball for
anything in the world; I simply had to go. In looking around the room I
found a skirt belonging to my sister that I thought would answer my
purpose. I had my shirt on and I put the skirt on over my head. Then I
ripped the skirt up the center and tied it around each leg with a piece
of cord--anything for that game!--and there I was with a pair of
trousers manufactured out of a girl's skirt.
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