![]() Orr, dishes were moved here and there until a certain order took shape. Under the direction of the Methodist minister’s wife, Mrs. The tables were soon covered with large bowls of vegetables, platters heaped with fried chicken, and baskets filled with corn bread, rolls, and other breads. They didn’t speak to each other for some time. Pappy, should’ve changed pitchers in the third inning. That’ll be fun, won’t it?” “I guess so.” Our bare feet were dangling, gently swinging back and forth. You wanna play baseball for the Cardinals, don’t you?” “Yes ma’am.” “ Well, you’ll have to leave home and go up North, live in a new house, make new friends, go to a new church. “Change is always difficult, Luke, but it can also be excitin’. My mother put her hand on my knee and rubbed it, as if this would make me feel better. ![]() Other than Jimmy Dale and Stacy, I didn’t know a soul up North. They have big, nice schools up North.” It didn’t sound like fun. We’ll make do, tough it out, you’ll be in a school up there, a good school.” “I don’t want to go to a new school.” “ It’ll be fun, Luke. Your father’ll work in the Buick plant with Jimmy Dale. That’s where the jobs are.” “ How long-” “Not long. There’s not much of a future.” “ Where we goin’?” “North. It’s not very good land, Luke, never will be. “Why does our land flood so quick?” “Because it’s low and close to the river. “Sure looks like it,” she said, just a little sad. ![]() Left its banks, our house would be in danger. ![]()
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