"
"Are we gonna just stay till the program?"
"No, Mierd. The cows have got to be milked, and I'll need to
fix supper for your grandma and grandpa. So we'll rush back home
as soon as we get the cleaning and decorating done. Thank
goodness I'm through with this eternal ironing one more time."
Mierd hopped up off the floor and asked Mama where Wiley was.
"I thought you knew he went with a bunch of boys to look for
the tree-this morning."
"No'm."
"I wish I'd gone."
"No, no, Bandershanks. Girls don't go tramping through the
woods to cut down Christmas trees. The place for girls is in the
house. Mierd, see if Grandpa Thad has finished hitching up the
wagon for us."
I grabbed myself a handful of corn and ran with Mierd.
Lots of folks were going in and out of Papa's store as we
passed there. Mama said they had waited till the eleventh hour to
buy presents to put on the tree.
We could see several people up at the church, too. Uncle Dan
and Wallace Goode's papa were at the woodpile chopping kindling.
Mrs.
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