Re: [gardeners] DeDe gives Belle Ringer a job
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 08 Jul 1998 06:57:53 -0600
At 08:50 PM 7/7/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear Belle,
>
>I couldn't help but read what you told Dede. You know that I'm not the
>kind of woman to put my nose into anybody's business but my own, but this
>is one of those exception that proves the rule.
>
>Belle, you think twice before you go defiling your body with needles and
>paint. You may be in a low place right now, but you is a LADY, Belle, and
>while a lady can wear all the paint she wants, it had best be the kind
>that washes off with some good pine tar soap. Your mama would roll over in
>her grave is she knew what you is contemplating. And you know that
>Preacher would be real disappointed.
>
>Think on it, Belle. I know you will Do the Right Thing. Or else.
>Aunt Edna
>
goshamighty, Edna. Wisht I'd had your letter a few hours ago. Girls here
got me down an' gave me a tattoo. Hurt worse'n that time I fell into the
blackberry brambles, it did. They got all through and let me up, an' let
me look in the mirror. Well, THEY say it's a eagle, but it looks like that
skinny ol' rooster Grandpa sawed the spurs off of. What kind o' eagle has
a comb, anyway? An' beside it, it says "Forever Yorus" Now I cain't
figger out what's a "yorus." You got any ideas? I'm gettin' tired o' this
ol' jail. Girls here turn mean at the drop of a hat. One o'them took her
tin cup and rattled it on the bars til my head like to split. I think I
want to go home. I'll just tell the next man who unlocks the door that I
think I'll go home now. Belle