The Names by N. Scott Momaday

Author:N. Scott Momaday [Momaday, N. Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780816545452
Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Miss Johnson said Mayre not Mary why doesn’t she talk the way she’s supposed to and that Tommy the dirty rat I’ll knock his block off and not care if he tells he tells everything and the time Billy Don and I got spanked because we were throwing snowballs and broke a window the one on the side not the driver’s side and the lady was smiling until that happened driving slowly and smiling and the glass went crack it was only cracked and then she got mad not really mad but oh oh now we have to do something about that this and that you’ll never know just how much I love you I didn’t want to go to Mrs. Powell’s because she has all those nice things in her house and you have to sit still and she watches you and one time she wouldn’t even let me eat an orange in her car it smells she said and your fingers get sticky she said and I don’t like her crummy cactus garden either well I like it but there are a lot of better cactuses over by Billy Don’s dad’s place I wonder who that girl was the soldier’s girl on the library lawn and they were having their picture taken and the soldier was trying to touch her down there and she was giggling and I heard the twins laughing about it and I wanted to laugh too but the girl was pretty and I thought she should not have let him do that she’s really good and decent probably maybe she was ashamed and didn’t know what to do but laugh that’s the way I am sometimes oh my gosh mom and dad heard me yesterday and I was singing You’re in the army now you’re not behind the plow you’ll never get rich you son of a bitch and they heard me and weren’t mad but said not to sing that even if all the other kids were singing it I think dad wasn’t sure and said he said son of a bee didn’t he and mom said yes he did and I did but I didn’t know it I really didn’t know it and one time in the arbor Lucius told me I said some bad words and Aunt Clara heard me and I didn’t know I had said them how could I just forget like that Lucius and Marland and Justin Lee and Ponzi we used to play around the arbor and the outhouse and tell jokes and smoke why did Burt tell me he was smoking oak leaves and that was all right well he’s a lot older but I bet that wasn’t oak leaves maybe it was anyway John was in the shower and I was playing at the sink in the kitchen and I wasn’t trying to make the water hot but he thought I was well what’s today Wednesday or Thursday no Saturday Saturday at the show when

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