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be sure it's tied down good 8 10

Somewhere With You

Son Well Charlie I'm ready to close that

deal how about you you sure Jazz you

real

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sure I'm sure Charlie

got a

pin your

deed your place Sarah it'll always be

partly yours Jeff and this is at least

to

us whole 15,000 is there Jess just want

to be sure

Charlie I've been dealing with you for

so long I don't want to be cut short you

wouldn't cut me short would

you Uncle

Charlie it's all load and ready to go

daddy okay son sweetheart we won't make

Sunday dinner out of manura

okay Charlie take care of

youself good hold

on

byebye bye bye let us know how Jenny

does

come on Charlie come on je show them how

I'm sensing

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that honey have you heard the

news I've paid up all my union

do like a bird to flew when lightning

struck I'm breaking out and I'm moving

up if the creek don't rise and I don't

die we'll live on steak and apple

pie doing without just never

stuck I'm getting mine and I'm moving

up I'm moving up a little higher

Breaking All the chains at

home I may not be a big high flyer but

there's freedom in my

soul I've got open eyes and

mind and the love of man and

womankind it'll work out with a little

love and I'll be all right cuz I'm

moving

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up I'm moving up a little higher

Breaking All the chains at

home I may not be a big high fly

but there's freedom in my

soul I've got open eyes and

mind and a love of man and

womankind it'll work out with a little

love and I'll be all right cuz I'm

moving up

this is our surgical release read and

sign it

please Dr funderberg told us all about

it where' I put my

name here

yes and now I need your insurance

cards I think cash ma'am anything else

is Charity to my mind I don't need

charity Mr H we don't require payment in

advance well the doc said it might be

$14,000 maybe more count the operation

in the hospital for 2 months he said we

don't get it done though my Jin going to

grow up to be all humped over and

breathless so I come prepared to pay the

whole your bank and that's yours to draw

on so long as you have to and that way I

know my baby's treated right

I

know how many kids go to the school do

you think

Daddy it's awful

big oh not too big for you son water off

of Duck's back

ma'am you yes ma'am I'd like to enroll

my boy in your school and there's his

transfer papers well let's see mulberg

County Consolidated High is that down in

Kentucky yes ma'am 10th grade well of

course it's a rural School your son will

be given some tests here Mr Hen to

indicate us which level he's

on if you'll fill out this form as soon

as we get the information there then

Theodore can start right in there's no

need for him to miss any more school

than he has to looks as if he's ready

for gym though

anyhow track oh I

see well I really don't have time for

this I got to go looking for a job well

it really won't take that much time at

all it's not detailed

I bet you know this town pretty good you

know where I can find a job doing what

anything doesn't matter anything except

dog holding in a coal mine like I've

been doing since I was 12 well there's

some big plans out in Norwood rout 71

there's always the wholesale produce

market but that's unskilled labor you

can always try down there there's guchis

my father's Warehouse he's always

looking for some

help

gr you feel out Ted I got to be

going hey

Ted run like a deer

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uh this the employment office uh-uh

employees only in here it's down the

hall um how many doors about 45 on your

right thank you

hi this is where I apply for

work that's what the sign

says oh yeah fill this out then you take

our Personnel exam then we file your

application and if something comes up to

fit we'll call you it's them what for

aptitudes you know everybody's got

aptitudes the exam shows us what you can

do well are you just just put me to work

and you'll see what I can do Mister if

you want a job here this is the

procedure Daddy won't you take me back

to muber County Down By The Green River

where Paradise l

I'm sorry my son but you're too late in

asking Mr pe's cold trained uned

away when I was a child my family would

travel back to Western Kentucky where my

parents were

born to a backward Old Town that I often

remember so many times that my memories

worn then some sometimes we travel on

down the Green River to the abandoned

old prison down by adri

Hill where the air smelled like snakes

and we had shoot with our pistol but

empty pop bottles was all we would

kill Oh Daddy won't you take me back to

mberg County Down By The Green River

where Paradise

lay I'm sorry my son but you're too late

in asking Mr pe's cold trained un Haled

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away I'm sorry my son but you're too

late in asking Mr PE his cold train done

hold

it

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way I did the mile in 4:30 Daddy can you

believe it you should have seen a look

on the coach's face man that track's

like running on clouds after what we had

at

mberg hey what's the crumbs eat at the

table

sir are you going down to norw after a

job again

today no I don't think so I about fished

it out last week

reading and lachland all the way out to

Sharonville it's either a union shop or

they're not hiring surely somebody in

this area has got something to suit your

daddy's

style I got to go back to the hospital

too the doctor called wants to talk to

me about something I don't know what hey

daddy this is some operation you know

one slip of the knife and assist is a

veg for

sure Ted don't talk like that

well I got to go

Daddy hey it's an hour to school I know

but some of the team runs mornings too I

figure I'll get to know the guys

better hey Daddy you know what some of

the guys on the team they drive their

own cars yeah your time's coming son hey

some Lun

money maybe shouldn't paid rent two

months in

advance payday is just around the corner

son

how'd the test go last

week I don't know don't let that big

Schoo Buffalo you son you're going to be

all right okay hey better luck Daddy

okay hi sweetheart how's it going okay I

guess Hey Now what's

this why do I have to have dumb

scoliosis it's going to be tomorrow I'm

going to be

operated I know honey Dr thunderberg

told me all about it but he says all it

test show that your health is a horse

but I've been stuck in bed off and on

the whole week and it'll be all the time

afterwards

hey remember what we said now you got to

have

patience it'll help if you're stubborn

like your old

dad you know what the doctor said he

said he's going to put a steel bar in my

back inside Daddy he says it won't rust

or anything well better not no cheap

goods for us

ham sweetheart if I could have that

operation for you you know i' do three

times

over if there's anything I could do for

you to help you you know I'm

daddy could you I mean I can't hold a

book and well I know it was mom I always

used to read to me but couldn't you do

it a little

while well honey I got so much to do I

got to look for work I got a lot of

people to see I just don't have time

I'll be back tonight okay I

promise tall and straight and gorgeous

that's what my gin's going to

be you just think about that all

right bye

sweetheart Oh Daddy won't you take me

back to muber County Down By The Green

River where Paradise

lay I'm sorry my son but you're too late

in asking Mr pe's cold trained unall it

away the coal company came with the

world's largest shovel they tortured the

Timber and stripped all the

land they dug for the coal till the land

was for forsaken then roll it all down

to the progress of

man when I dial it my ashes float down

the Green River let my soul roll on up

to the Rochester

down I'll be happyway to heaven with

Paradise waiting 5 miles away from

wherever I

am Oh Daddy won't you take me back to Mu

andberg County Down by the green River

where Paradise

lay I'm sorry my son but you're too late

in asking Mr peab is cold trained anded

it away

I'm sorry my son but you're too late in

asking Mr PE is cold train done hold

it

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away I'm stay hi any work here does it

look like it to

you no looks like some kind of happy

hour to

me I hear some place called guchi might

be hiring where's that you passed it

coming down produce

Street you're just off of the hill and

out of the holler ain't you you want a

job go back where you come

from Mr there's work here night work

lumping what's lumping loading unloading

Produce Market opens around 5: in the

morning morning what you got to do you

got to hang around and when a trucker

holls for a lump you got to jump or he

gets beat

out no offense but lumping sure sounds

like what it is youall to know the pain

all that

rich thanks anyway

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conations

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sorry officer I saw the light too late

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oh don't want your wallet license

Only You Kentucky Briars come up here

you don't know how to drive you don't

know anything make work that's all you

are you got no right to talk to me like

that get over here I'll spread him

all right turn

around now give me your

license might know out of date 7

months my wife always took care of

that 7 months you can see for yourself

you're driving illegally in Ohio and

Kentucky oh man you're not worth the

jail

space but that's 95 bucks for the double

violation Here sign it you can mail it

in but don't let me catch you driving

without a valid license on this side of

the river again next time I won't be so

easy on you where do I get it I mean uh

an Ohio license you can read all about

that in the Driver's Handbook you get

one at the license bureau

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T dad what are you doing home so early

what about you I thought you had

practice I got kicked

out out of school and off the team hey

come back here Ted what did you do don't

you know better than to cause trouble in

a new school I didn't

daddy it was them dumb test they say I

can't read good enough I got to go back

to 9th grade that's Junior

High that's a different School Daddy and

you're from Kentucky

oh I've been getting it

too but not my

boy let principal keep hours after

school I guess so get your track shoes

and let's go

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I want to see the principal I'm sorry

the principal's not in oh yeah may I

help you I want to talk to you Miss

guchi is our vice principal gives test

and stuff D she'll do just fine can we

use that office certainly wait out here

Ted find Mr Scofield for me will you

sure

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Ted tells me that you're putting him

back in junior high and for no good

reason that's not true I demoted him

because his score indicates a level far

my boy passed every grade all his life

what's the matter Kentucky school's not

good enough for you Mr H whether the

school is in Kentucky or timbuk to has

nothing to do with it each system has

its own standards bull no not bull

perhaps his old school passed him

through because of his athletic

abilities but Ted is not in this school

to learn to run

your son Reeds far beneath 9th grade

level given his age we're only dropping

him back one year we do care about the

whole child here I've seen my boy with

his scho work I know Ted can read have

you ever once looked at his

homework Mr ham I'd like to introduce

you to the principal of Harding High Mr

scoffield Excuse me I want my boy back

in here now what do you people expect he

comes into you new high tone school here

has to take a bunch of tests the first

week he's scared to death Mr ham I'll

explain if you'll listen a moment she

just did talking about the whole child

it's not enough that I have to take the

boy out of the only home he ever had

bring him to a strange place he's just

getting used to it and you want to throw

him out it's two months till School's

Out Ted would make it if you'd give him

half a

chance all right but if Ted doesn't

measure up back he goes

at least the track coach will be

pleased well Ted sure can

run and he'll do his school work I'll

see to

that hey

Ted you're back

in don't give me all the credit you're

some Runner you

know man

you see the look on Miss galucci's face

hey

to never mind son just do your school

work all

right now go on you're late for practice

uh Mr G

Luchi

yeah you a

lumper i PID 20 bucks for half a load

you want

it yes sir I sure do come

on where you

been I got me a lumber sure too late I

hire him 1150 a buck of top grade apples

I'm taking 20 bucks for him off the top

your bill huh

yeah move

it you just docked yourself a tener

I I checked the order he's got he got

them on the truck now here he comes I

call you

later winer's Market called they ordered

three Flats of mushrooms and not two you

understand not two all right ni Mr guchi

I spilled a box of apples so spill them

back in the Box okay but Mr guchi you

ought to top grade you didn't get top

grade you got storage apples in they

worming

hey

hey best Carolina apples huh last

Summer's michigans you switched them on

me it's not what I ordered they stink

you what I should call a federal

inspector huh huh now get out of here I

got four crates back there you

wait 30 bucks for your trouble now get

out go on

you call my Marion you fight no doctor

NE now get back to work

you don't treat an old man like

that now you

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moveing you all right yeah I'm okay the

doctor he says I get upset too much so

you know what he gives me nitroglycerin

someday I blow myself up all together I

like the way you dump bad

apples you know the good and better

vegetables too yes sir I raised my own

food in Kentucky why you lumping HH you

like me you too all for lumping almost

Your Mother of God would my Mariana tell

me that if I let Tully call her tly he

don't know nothing from quality and

who's going to check the load with

drivers like that I don't got the time

that's

stupid

I I give you you five bucks an hour 7

hours a day 6 days a week H all right

some lump and sure you got to move the

produce but you check the quality you

make deliveries and things like that he

you want it the job with me yes sir Mr

guchi I'm I'm Jesse Halen yeah come on

now I show you around the place come

on um Mr guchi ni s um

well s about today I can't work past 700

this morning well you you just started

now already you want a holiday no sir

it's not for me it's my it's my little

girl you see she's at Children's

Hospital and going to be operated on

today and well I got to be there oh yeah

oh okay sure sure you you going to make

good care of your little girl huh a

little girls a quite extraordinary huh I

know come on come on I show you around

the place and then you go to the

hospital okay come

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on it's been over 4

hours doctor never said it take this

long maybe something went wrong

hey Ted why don't you go back to school

oh not yet

dad Jen's going to be all right I know

she's just going pull through this just

fine when it's over she's okay tonight

you and I ought to go celebrate you know

what take in a movie or something we've

hardly said more and hello or goodbye

since we got

here I uh I got some other plans

Daddy I mean if is

okay something with the team

no no those guys

they they think I run okay you know like

they keep saying and I've been running

up and down some Brier Hollow all my

life

but no it's it's his kid in Home Room he

got a set of wheels and

uh he said if I wanted to I'd go with

him and some other guys in that and kind

of cruise

around what about homework

well it's Friday I got all weekend Mr

ham yes

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ma'am okay little darling you'll be all

right the doctor said you did just

fine he said you grew two inches L right

on the table

Daddy what baby hurts

Daddy I know it does honey it hurts

awful but it will quit pretty

soon and daddy will be right here with

you I'll be right here

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baby doc says we got to give Jen about 5

months to heal up and then after that

that hey looks like an old-fashioned

Farmers Market back home some farmers

are sure some like me old push Carters

who don't know when to quit don't pay me

the gas to come here but it's

nice M you take the table

any place special so what do you think

where my name is down the street there

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guch

hey this is not my place G says G not

guchi what's the matter you don't read

good bring the

table yeah yeah guchi put over there huh

good you know not know how to read huh

why you not learn you not stupid all

this I know but not to learn when you

can yes stupid come

on you think it make you less a man you

try to learn you less a man you don't

when I come to America I not to read

Italian forget English I as 16 I'm in

New York I go to school with babies I

learned more more fast than them I tell

you yeah but everybody knows you can't

teach an old dog new tricks it's not

true I tell my Mariana if she find to

make good lessons for you huh I thought

you might have heard she and I didn't

exactly hit it off you know that's just

my Mariana's bad Italian temple with me

too all the time she shouts you're too

old for this business the truth is she

don't want Italian green Ross of Papa

she want a nice retired American Papa

she no no more Mariana Mariana finito

since 12 years old she call herself

Marian but she got good

brains H you you want to work of for Sal

guchi you must learn to read and write

fito I I speak to her for you huh oh no

no I speak to her myself if I decide to

sh

Mr Alam did you want to see

me please come in

you know I work for your daddy

now well I respect

him and he said he thought that you

might be able to fix up some

lessons I can't read or

write are you totally

illiterate well now what kind of dumb

question is that that's like asking are

you totally pregnant I'm

sorry I never took any reading prizes

okay well now your fine state of Ohio

says I got to pass a written test in

this manual to get my driver's license

oh they'll let you take that test

orally Ted could help you with the

manual he could use the reading practice

now T Ted's not to know anything about

this all

right how soon can I get the lessons

takes time to learn to read if it were

easy there wouldn't be 25 million adult

functional illiterates in this country

it's plain hard work nobody ever accused

me of being afraid of hard

work all my life I wanted to

read I can find your literacy lessons

let me check into when and where and

I'll call

you thanks Miss

guchi Mr Alam yes may I ask you a

personal

question how have you managed this

long you lie a lot you get cheated some

you wrap yourself in a sweet cocoon like

mberg County Kentucky and you fake

it but up

here no

way I'm telling you it's on the wrong

side

it's backwards home don't look like that

it's my picture not

yours why'd you come to see me anyhow to

tell me I'm wrong you only come when

Daddy makes you do feel like going to

practice how do you stand it Sis all

this I have to don't

I yeah well I don't

well I wish I didn't either you sure are

in a bad mood wait till you have to go

to school here okay at least down in

mberg there was folks the way daddy

talks I thought you liked

everything yeah

sure I got no R to

complain one to look at you and I know

that I see her

you can let the dishes drain in the sink

if you want to

Ted Jenny said you came by to see her

today she looks good huh if you like

mommies going back to the hospital

again how'd your my go today did you

break you 4:30 I ran this morning that

was

plenty coach thinks so

too don't you have

homework you don't know damn all about

H what kind of talk is that you don't

talk to me that way in this house I got

study hul tomorrow

you know you spend all your time with

her and you take it out on me how I got

to stay in all the time and how we don't

get to see each other all that much

anymore I'm not going to the hospital

Ted got a prospect for a job for two

nights a week I got to go check it out

and what am I supposed to do stay here

all by myself in this cruddy

place you know what we got to do

son we got to go find us a fishing hole

and go bass fishing again have some fun

like we used to

just you and me we'll do it too real

soon sure

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daddy The Secret of learning to read is

drill drill drill first we memorize our

letters then we learn to recognize them

in

words then we memorize the words and

only then can we

read now open your books

class here is our very first letter

A A is for apple say it Class A A is for

apple B B is for bear

C C is for

cat C is for cat now we turn the fourth

page and we come to d d is

for right d is for dog take your pencils

in hand

please you hold a pencil like

this while I write our first new letters

on the board I want you to write them on

your pads you start from the top down

always ma'am Miss

cleman I can count off my letters like I

can count off my numbers and I don't

need any practice holding a pencil I can

even get the start of some

words but I was hoping that I might be

able to learn to read a few words right

away can you write

sir just man name I see like making a

picture it really is best if you learn

to read and write

simultaneously I know how hard it is not

to be

impatient but you must realize that

since we meet only twice each week it

will be a year even two before you're

reading and writing well I wouldn't take

any bets on me being in this town at

long unless I'm in

jail

okay that's the way it is I'm needed at

home thank you ma'am

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breakfast

Papa why didn't I do what I asked teach

Jess Papa please drop it drop this

conversation I have not taught in years

and it takes a very special skill to

teach an adult illiterate I don't have

that skill you're so smart you can't

learn how you're breakfast is getting

cold Papa I have a job I have a

responsibility and I'd like to live my

own life please what kind of life is

that anyhow Mariana my Mariana you go to

school you push papers all day you come

home cook my dinner cook my breakfast

you go back and push more papers

what kind of life is that since your

Paul died you stopped teaching you have

no joy no laugh

even you die too like him Papa that's

not

true that's

nonsense I moved up that's all to

Administration and I think you should be

very proud of

me besides nobody cares anymore

anyway I don't want to teach and stand

at the head of the classroom all day

long screaming for attention you lose

the good students anyway so you don't

care neither huh you go be mariang guchi

vice principal Papa I changed my name to

Marian when I was a little girl it's

stuck what can I do you listen to me

Mariana this Jess is not a kid in school

he

cares Jess is a man for me you tell me I

need

somebody I need just him and me we

we how do you say we you connect yeah

yeah all

right I'll find him a private teacher no

not any teacher

you eat your

breakfast it's cold

yes come

in good morning Mr ham good

morning your daddy said you found a

teacher for me yes if you'd like to sit

down we'll get started well he didn't

say it was going to be you there was no

other

volunteer no I can't ask that you don't

understand to volunteer mean I

understand English Miss guchi it's your

volunteer time that worries me there's

no way that I could ever repay

you Mr halam I have spent 15 hours over

this past weekend with the Literacy

Council learning how to teach

you you will sit here and we will

begin please

thank you this is lesson one this is

chart

one this is a bird with a long tail and

a round body say

bird say

bird bird

good this looks like a bird with a long

tail and a round body say bird

bird this is the word bird breed bird

bird very very good the word bird begins

with the sound b b say b b good again

b

b again b b Miss guchi how's this going

to be faster than the other class you

sent me to well for one thing we're

going to meet more days a

week May I continue

yeah and then when you turn on the next

page it's going to be a for apple right

wrong Apple isn't until the fourth

lesson and it isn't a for apple it's a

for apple and bat and Cat it would help

me if you just explain what's going on

here all

right I'm prepared for

that there's a

bird here's the bee now when you see

this in print it will remind you of the

picture

which will remind you of the sound B and

that along with all the other sounds

that you will learn here will help you

to sound out any new words you see you

already have a million words in your

mind you're an adult not a child

learning to read so you have to sound

out the word and then match it in your

mind with the word you already know and

then you'll be reading is that clear mhm

this is the LA box system and it lets

you find your own speed would you like

to try it yourself then mhm all right

I'm going to give one to you right here

so you can try it yourself right and

this is that's like that see um this is

a cup sitting up on its Edge unless you

got the picture turned wrong no I have

it turned right it's right

this cup C so the sound is C that's

right there C C very good that's right c

c c c c very good really do you want do

another one

mhm this is a boy with his arms up and

this is the letter U and it's pronounced

uh uh

for an up right right very good uh uh uh

you have gone through 23 initial letters

and I think that's really well done Mr H

and you're remembering the key words

it's really wonderful I'd like to give

you a word to read read this word you

can do it

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PR

PR in no

from in PR

is promise

yes you've done it you just read really

read your first

word that's wonderful

promise do you ever see such H scratches

the rate I'm going your Mariana's going

to be giving me lessons till

doomsday she worried about

that that's my fishing t

I keep hoping I'll get to take my boy

fishing some

Sunday oh I don't know if she worries

about it or not she seems to think I'm a

fast learner sometimes what worries me

is how I'm going to PIR

back take Gass some

night why

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not hey you crazy what's the matter

you rub a bank or something you got to

hide from a

cop well get us out of

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here hey you all

right huh why you hide from the police

you got trouble or something

no it's just

that he's the one cop in this town knows

I don't have

El why you not tell me your truck needs

new shocks what am I going to do say no

we can't deliver yeah no deliver better

go ziper zip Zer then

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crash oh oh dear

me so I got to get that

license down in mberg my brother-in-law

would fix me up in no time he's County

Clerk this Manual's written at eighth

grade

level well why don't you make up word

list like we've been do and I'll

memorize them words like intersection

violation obstruction it's too difficult

it's not only that they make these tests

far trickier than they have to be even I

had to take mine twice even you

huh you

in I'm just an old chunk of

cold but I'm going to be a diamond

someday I'm going to grow and glow till

I'm so blue pure perfect I'm going to

put a smile on everybody's face all but

I'm going to kneel and pray every

day lest I should become vain along the

way I'm just an old chunk of coal now

Lord but I'm going to be a diamond

someday I'm going to learn the right

words to

talk I'm going to search and find a

better way to

walk I'm going to spit and polish my

oldid self until I get rid of every

single

flaw oh I want to be the world's best

friend I'm going to go around shaking

everybody's

hand I'm just an old chunk of coal now

Lord but I'm going to be a diamond

someday

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I'm just an old chunk of coal now Lord

but I'm going to be a diamond someday

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you're late and where were you yesterday

I fell asleep over my homework ever

since

yesterday well Ted had a track meet and

I'd already missed too many besides I

came by to tell you but you weren't in

your office really well you could have

let me a note what didn't you think of

that did you believe old guchi maguchi

was a boyfriend poor guy must be

desperate dad

did she call you about something about

me no no I didn't did your father and I

were going to have a cup of coffee

together

t

t yeah

um come late for track anyway

okay I often wondered what I'd do if

that ever happened I guess I didn't have

a clue how about that cup of coffee well

all right

Mr allum as long as I can change it to a

chocolate shake well I'll buy you a

chocolate shake if you won't call me

mister anymore all right okay

Jess best chocolate shake you ever

tasted you know Jen I've been doing some

planning when you get out of here get

good and strong the three of us are

going to a Red's game and we're going to

watch old Johnny bch break his own

record with another Homer couldn't we

just go back home

Daddy honey it's not our home anymore

it's Uncle

Charlie's any pictures in here sure it's

like the movie daddy where's the

device I'm too old for it really but

it's

neat this where you are right here mhm

in the middle of the forest

are you going to read to me

Daddy well don't look at me like that I

mean what's so unusual about a daddy

reading to his little

girl yeah as a matter of fact I

am they saw

running

toward them to two great beasts with

bodies like bears and heads like tigers

they are the k k i

kid I know I never heard that word

before the C is Daddy they're monstrous

and Dreadful beasts

oh I see okay

they are the

cadus said the Cowardly

Lon now this is more like it huh

yeah I sure been missing it

Daddy you too yeah of

course hey Ted remember that time down

on the Green River we were fishing you

hung That Bass he jerked you off the

bank right into

water you come out looking like a

drowned

Mouse

yeah I've been missing a lot of things

back home

Daddy will takes some getting used to

you know new faces new friends and a

strange

Place guess you know about that wouldn't

you old guchi maguchi she'd take a whole

lot of getting used to hey quit it now

don't make fun of Miss guchi she's one

of the few good things that have come my

way

lately well I guess you really like it

out here don't you

Dad yeah I like it all right a that fine

new life just around a corner I

promise that's hey you got one I think

so don't get wet

again going upek going and run

going avocado 180 check banana 47 check

two

163 check ginger root 147

check going up Creek going in R

hey you had yourself a good day huh Jess

yeah and I had some fun too what do you

think of that bravo bravo go going up

CRI Creek I mean it's like I've been

standing still but today I think I moved

ahead just just a little

bit you think you know how to dance Jess

back in my Village in Italy on a

Moonlight night mus the wine and the

soft women I tell you just nothing in

the world like Italia for soft women

they know how to dance a

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maybe so s but you never saw a pretty

long tall slim Mountain girl stomping

her foot and shaking the roof down

swinging that body around and that long

sweet smelling hair Falls across your

face going up trip

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Creek ch ch ch ch

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no Chicago Brokers on the phone that

crook he's the one delivers wilted

lettuce so go tell him now you know

better than me now what comes in here

huh you fire him you want

to yes

sir going up cripp creek going

in Triple Creek have a little fun

wow this place could really hold a lot

of hay

have you seen a print of this somewhere

before uhuhuh another one of a

cowboy we called it the cowboy anyway my

mama cut the picture out of a magazine

and my daddy put a frame around it and

it hung over my bed till it just faded

away but it was the same painter

Frederick Remington no doubt about that

that yes same light and color

and like it's

alive

wow now that's dumb what that

picture all those feathers tied to that

fishing hook nobody fishes for large

mouth bass with dry flies use a plug or

a popping bug or live Min and that's a

largemouth bass if I ever saw one well

what difference does that make I mean

you look at the brush work and you saw

it in the Remington look at the hey but

what's what's the point of painting a

picture that's not true J please For

Heaven's Sake well I mean it just seems

dumb to me that that painter went to all

that trouble to paint a picture about

something that he knew absolutely

nothing

about see this

that's what you use for largemouth bass

that's

beautiful can you buy these mhm but it's

more fun making them

yourself just a little something I do

when everybody else is reading

I thought of this the other day I think

it's the right

choice some kind of picture

well

welcome just take me a minute to find

this

now I think I know where it

is you and your daddy you read all these

books yes more or

less h

ah I love this room I love these

books a thousand different

worlds all ready and waiting can you

imagine a thousand different lives now

they can be yours too other places other

times new

thoughts isn't that

wonderful well here's your first not

Noel IR earn a sing way I chose it for

you the OM man and the

C

understand written words aren't just a

code that you have to decipher chest

they speak they have voices they paint

colors even just like that painting we

saw today by Fredick

Remington I hope you like it I hope you

read it you can Jess it's beautifully

written and its language is very

simple the man in the story reminds me

of

you he was an old man who

he was an old man who fished alone in a

skiff in the Gulf

Stream and he had gone 84 days now

without taking a

fish poor

fell right

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w

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R good

son can you hear the groans I'm the one

cost is not making the state oh don't

take it so hard you're not the only one

on the team that cost points today no

but I don't know daddy down in mberg a

race was just a

race up here it's all I got

running well then maybe you ought to put

a little more time in on

it I know nothing's harder than thinking

you've just blown the only one good

thing you got going for you but you got

more than one good thing going for you

son you got the team party tonight

that'll cheer you up not me not now

besides be more like a wake everybody

look I got other plans daddy studying at

at a guy's house okay he's in my history

class yeah finals are coming

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hi how you

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doing

adorable what's your name

you

we

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take boy and his Pals were joy riding

downtown I had him all to the station

but uh Ted here said you didn't have a

phone so I decided to bring him home and

make sure you knew about it

thanks

officer you better know too those kids

were drinking boiler

makers

thanks I thought you were studying I'm

sorry Daddy you said you were going to

be

studying look at me when I'm talking to

you

I said look at me when I'm talking to

you Joy Ryden what kind of word is Joy

Ryden lying to me drinking you know what

I ought to do to you Ted I'm sorry

Daddy go to bed

hey Jess FIS order okay it's my break

time no I don't have t I'm feeling

hotter than a pistol

huh Jess

chess give me

I might as well be blind yes it's my

handwriting what does that matter

everybody writes different except me I

don't hardly write at all so you know

how to read don't

you are you like old Santiago in in this

book huh I like him okay I guess if I

could get past five pages in a day's

time you listen to me you got to think

what you can do not what you can't

if I do that I i' not be here in

Cincinnati with a pride and all of this

hey if I think like that any time in my

65 years I'll be back in Italy a long

time

ago in your

America there is no room for people to

say only what they can't do so my people

have been in this country 200

years I'm what they came down to

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watch for a break in a break in the the

traffic the traffic

then

move qu Qui quietly no

quickly move quickly into the flow of

traffic of course it's quickly one of

the easy ones I know that word oh Jess

you've only been at this for 2 weeks why

don't you postpone this test or at least

take it Orly you know there's material

backwards no way I'm not about to tell

one more soul that I can't read I just

don't think I can handle it oh who cares

about anybody else you're the one that

matters that's all and this is wrong

you're pushing yourself way too hard you

should take it slowly and be planning to

go to high school you can be

studying History Literature not a

driver's

manual

Jess there's a summer school that has a

remedial reading class and you're almost

ready for it and in the fall you could

enter the n9th

grade I don't think you understand at

all maybe nobody understands except

people like us like me I can't help but

think that maybe maybe I can just learn

so much in and then I can't learn

anymore maybe I can just go so far and

then I can't go any further of course

you

can and it's crazy what you said about

high school you know I can just see me

going home telling Ted and Jen say hey

guess what your daddy's in the ninth

grade yeah you're such a proud

man and so full of Promise you've come

so far Jess you don't have to explain

anything

yeah well slate I got to go with the be

closed okay all right

bye knock him

dead j i I come to say

something for courage courage you have a

fewer years than me more strength same

intelligence same

Pride we go good together no

Jess if you want we make a good future

you and

me this is what I come to

say s I might never be doing anything up

here but

lumping no it's it's not true I got to

tell you if this doesn't work out the

kids just soon to go back to Kentucky

and

you want to kill yourself with a

coldo your son you want him to grow up

just like you and your daughter I tell

you she'll marry some sh a fool like her

father hey hey take it

easy you okay yeah

yes all right

yeah say all about my

kids I figure they're so far ahead of me

that they're bound to go their own way

not

mine but however it works

out thanks a

lot B of

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forun please God

man I was

I wonder if I could take this test

orally because I don't I don't read good

enough to take it written you had to

make an appointment for that sir and

bring with you some proof of your

illiteracy it can be a letter from your

minister your doctor or a school

official you trying to tell me I got to

show proof of something that I've been

denying all my life well we can't give

that spatial service to everyone

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a hey what do you think you're doing

pulling out like that you on the street

or something I on the street when I'm on

the right you pulled

out all right that's enough cut it out

cut it out cut it out cut it back it up

back it up I need your driver's license

and I need your driver's license

sir I need your driver's license

sir I don't have

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one I can

see blue gray Hills before

me I can hear the robin as she

sing and the cotton would sway In the

Heat of the day

catfish sleep while The Children Play

tell me have you been so

lucky to have grown in the peaceful

arm of sweet

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Kentucky memories come to hold me

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tight and share my empty bed at

night and eat me back in time to where

the Earth and stars were mine for a

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while first girl I ever loved was

there she had cool soft skin and shiny

Raven

hair in the tall wet grass the hours

passed seems like the whole worlds Shook

and left she gave me all her

charm and we moved in the triming

arm of sweet

Kentucky Mr how I get 10% of the bond

that'll be $35

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thank you the release for your things

you can't sign your name the next will

do looking for my

curf we take these you got somebody you

can call to drive the truck home for

you no I'll take a bus I think I've got

just about enough left for that up to

you the charges 10 bucks a day for

impounded vehicle

Les call Sal guchi galucci's Warehouse

five no he's got heart trouble pay

phone by the way you can take that test

Orly you know

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sorry to get you out this time of night

thanks for coming

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sure I'm driving but I'm

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the test went wrong too

huness you can take it again you know

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I'll clear up that ticket give Jen a

couple of days out of the hospital then

me and the kids are moving back to

Kentucky you can't oh yes I can I can go

home I can work the cold you can't talk

to me about working cold you taught me

everything I can learn Maran I thank you

very much don't thank me just don't turn

back don't quit everything's just

opening up for

you no

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you Ain home yet not yet riding the bus

makes him late how's all

week you did that bad yeah the pits I'm

hoping maybe since you're here he won't

get so mad you know how daddy always

does making us read the whole report

card out loud these days he ain't been a

whole lot of fun he's okay with me

except the last week or so that's cuz

you never do anything wrong he spanked

me last year didn't he and I was already

turned 10 and a

half home early huh

good so I don't have to hear about it

for the next years three tickets to a

for September when Jenny comes

back to get her cast changed

so how's the report

card that bad

huh they flunk me

out I told you Daddy at least I tried

after the last meet running is all I got

going for me it's just like it was when

we first got here they say I got to go

back to ninth

grade hey they don't have to know about

this down in muber do they I'm scheduled

to be a junior back there now hold on

hold on Ted the principle said you might

not get promoted but putting you back

what'd you do get all FS or something no

I got um I got a A in gym and I got a D

in math I don't understand it I've seen

you in your books it's all bunch of

gobbly go anyhow daddy who cares about

history anyhow we're going back to

mbberg wait a minute

you got a D in arithmetic

right but in biology geography history

English everything you got to know how

to read for you

failed sit

down Going H to

it your mom's Bible I find me the 40th

um what for don't argue just do

it read it to me for crap's sake daddy

you know I could read just read

it

uh I wait

waited Pat

Uh Patty pat pat Patiently I Waited

patiently for the

Lord and

uh he in uh

in

increased

inclined you putting words in the Bible

that are not there read

on

um and and

heard my My Cry he he brought me up

Al also out out of

an horrible pit out of

the me uh he brought me also up out of

an horrible pit out of the myy clay and

he set my feet upon a rock cuz you got

it memorized you bet I got it memorized

now come back here why sh you can't read

for beans anyway he can too he reads to

me all the time

how long have you

known

always I thought i'

did Mama did the farm books

and you paid cash for everything cuz you

couldn't wouldn't write a

check a lot of folks down home figured

it out that

way way we cool ourselves all my life

all the lies but you do read to me

Daddy just lately

honey before that I I

couldn't the truth of the matter is I've

been taking reading lessons ever since

we came up here working harder at it

than I ever did anything in my whole

life and I swear in two months in just

two months I read better than you do you

think it's shameful going back to that

Junior High School the shame of it all

is that they would even take you back in

the ninth grade reading like you

do maybe you lost a lot of respect for

your daddy up here maybe you don't look

up to me like I'd like for you

to but I'll tell you one

thing I'm going to fix it so you can

always look up to yourself

s

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afternoon

everybody class will come to

order in the next four weeks we're going

to work very hard to achieve that grade

level where each of you truly belongs

hey Fox you up front where you blog

Grammar School

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hablan

Harold turn off that

radio hey Pops come on in Disco This Aid

is getting you

down turn off that radio please uh I

must have broke it Mr

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Parker did you turn that radio off

please and take your seats

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you want to do what I've been doing all

my life running away from

words well that's up to you but you got

to know it's a poverty trade and right

here and now you could be digging

yourself a hole in the bottom of a

mountain that you're never going to

climb back up out of well not me and not

my boy we're going to high school and

we're going on to graduate and nobody or

nothing's going to stop

us we're going to learn to read

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dubb

Jacob Freeman

Joanne Graham Peter

here Callum

Jesse

here halum

Theodore

here Harrison Ruth I'm just an old chunk

of coal now Lord but I'm going to be a

diamond someday

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