Deep Trout by William Washabaugh

Author:William Washabaugh [Washabaugh, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, General
ISBN: 9781000181029
Google: 9UMHEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-26T05:01:50+00:00

The President of the Old Duck Hunters’ Association, Inc. wasn’t going fishing. He had told me Saturday that he had reformed and was going to work in his yard all day Sunday. I got up early Sunday and prowled the neighborhood. From across the street, where I chatted with a lawn-mowing neighbor, I saw Mr. President on his knees transplanting things out of little brown pots. His wife stood guard.

[I approached him, and he spoke to me in a low voice …] “When I get through with the transplanting, it appears the wife is going to put me to work digging out dandelions on a share-cropper’s basis. But if you’d just run along home, get into your Sunday clothes and come running back with a rod and tackle box, I might get away.”

[I did as I was told, and when I returned …] The President, on his knees in a supplicating attitude, cast his eyes to the ground and sorrowfully said he couldn’t come. I said I was going alone and started back toward my car, which was parked across the street. I heard the rascal sigh. Had I been as close as his wife, I might even have seen a tear cascade off his nose into the brown earth as his poor, tired fingers tucked soil about the last plant. Just as I reached the curb, Mrs. President up and said: “Quit squeezing the earth around that plant! You’ll squeeze it to death.” Then, eyeing him sharply: “Oh, go on, you old fool – and don’t think either of you kidded anyone.” He leaped up and tore around the comer of the house on two wheels (MacQuarrie 1967: 161 f.).

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