Tape 1: A letter from May 1986
Rose's little ones come to visit: new shoes and a mischievous toddler
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Rose visits with her two little ones, and Agnes describes the five-year-old who fell on the patio, the little one who lost a brand-new shoe, and the kids who wore their shoes out running around. The littlest is full of mischief and runs straight for the fishing pond, so the grown-ups are putting up a fence.
This story is part of Tape 1. You can hear it there at 3:33, along with everything around it.
What Agnes says
Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.
She's five years old, so she was happy. about five years old. She's going to go to school in the fall. But she looks so gorgeously nice. Oh, she was just beautiful girl. And, oh, she fell down and hurt her hand a little.
Got some bloody stuff, but we chagged it off. And she was all right. Well, she just fell on the pavement there at a place where, I had the patio. And, oh, there's so many things that tell you, I don't know.
So anyhow, I, oh, and the little Rosie's one, they both had to have shoes, she says. The little one lost his brand new nice shoes, one of them she lost. So I think maybe it could have been the dog that carried it away or something.
Anyhow, she had only one shoe, so she had to go get another shoes. And the oldest one, his thing was going to keep two pieces in front. She could practically see her, his toes. Well, they're just on the go, go, go.
So she was going to give them both a pair of shoes. and and grandpa Brunsleek oh the oldest one she he could say it's nice and says I am I am of the Brunsleek type and so all he was telling me how he's going to go and how he's going to go and fish with me and everything well the old Brunsleek and John got together and they are putting up a fence for the littlest one.
He is impossible, I am telling you. He is on a go, go, go. He is just full of the dickens. After all, he eats all the meat and everything he wants, you know. And so he's getting fat and nice and sassy.
And he is full of fun. and the oldest one he was trying to teach him to kneel down and smell to the flowers and he just pays no attention to it and so they had to go make the sense for her so she can't go and and make up to him he is on the he's ready to go to the to the brink to the place where they catch fish, you know.
And the oldest one, he sees him go, started to go to the thing. So he runs in the house and he pressed a button so the mama inside can see here, here and she flies out and straight for the thing, for the place where they catch fish and sure enough he's there within a half a minute he'd be in the water and he don't know how to go and swim or nothing and the oldest one he says I could teach him how to swim but he won't listen.
He is just himself he wants to go so he goes so so now the fence is going to be up because she just gets she's going to go very thin because he she's on a go with him running after him all the time so she can get done with her housework and stuff and so she's got uh she's got a place to go and paint something you know so she'll get money and stuff so that and uh