Wellspring by Janice Holt Giles

Wellspring by Janice Holt Giles

Author:Janice Holt Giles [Holt Giles, Janice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780813189703
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-02-15T00:00:00+00:00


DEAR SIR

“Appalachia was not a subculture of American society, a folk class, but an island long isolated in the middle of America, a primitive society with its own mores and norms.”

40 Acres and No Mule

Etna, Kentucky

February 2, 1961

District Director of Internal Revenue

Louisville

Kentucky

Dear Sir:

This leaves me fine and hoping you are the same.

Well, no, it doesn’t to say leave me real fine, for I’ve got an awful cold and am afraid I’m coming down with the virus. But then I always say you’ve got to expect a few sniffles in the wintertime. I just rub my chest good with goosegrease and turpentine and hope for the best. Depends on the way you look at it whether what I get is what I hope for. But it’s as good a remedy as anything else. Goosegrease and turpentine.

I got a letter from your office last December with one of those income tax forms in it. Form 1040-F it had printed on it and the instructions said fill it out and send it back by January 31st, on account of I farm.

What with one thing and another I didn’t get around to it and Jodie said I’d better write and tell you why. He says you’re awful strict about the income tax and will likely sue me if I don’t let you know. I told him I misdoubted that. He says he saw by the papers where you put people in jail even. I told him I could read the papers same as he could and it was mostly gamblers and horse-betting folks and crooked politicians and not honest, hardworking women trying to get along.

Just in case, though, I’m writing to you about it.

The reason I didn’t get around to it was, and if you ask me it was awful short notice to write in December and expect folks to write back to you by the end of January, especially when the tobacco hadn’t been sold yet and me not knowing how I stood on the hay and corn, what with the drought last summer, to say nothing of the hogs and Christmas turkeys. But the main reason I couldn’t finish filling out that form was on account of the guineas. I’ve settled about the tobacco now. It sold on January the sixth and brought a tolerable good price. I’ve got the hay and corn and fertilizer figured now and we killed the hogs on Christmas Day. They weren’t as fat as some I’ve had but I told Jodie we’d best kill while the freeze was on and take what we could get. The turkeys dressed out fair to middling, though I near froze my hands off.

If you’ll tell me about the guineas I can finish filling out this form now and send it to you.

So please hurry and answer.

Your friend,

Minnie Seebrun



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