"By
a moment of indecision I got myself into a job tomorrow. I think that I'll like
the job, except for one factor, the necessity for being at the schoolhouse at
4;30 a.m. I plan to hit the bed
immediately after supper, hence the letter now.
Here's hoping I won't suffer from temporary insomnia. This afternoon King approached to say,
"You want to go to Hutchinson with the band tomorrow, don't you?'. I
replied I might like to. Thinking it
over, it occured to me that I could make better use of the day by sleeping late
and taking up Ben Hicks on his offer of a trip to Ashland to get some fresh
meat. By that time, however, they had
fixed me up as a sponsor of the bus. Nearly
all of the women teachers are going. In
this particular bus, however, are grouped most of the tough boys of the
school. Helman wants a man to handle
them; otherwise he would have to redistribute them among th3e various
buses. Since it would entail a change in
his plans I told him that I would do it.
It should be fun--but 4:30 comes very early in the morning."
--Letter
from my father, Protection, Kans., to my mother, Winfield, Kans., Wednesday, September
17, 1947. Typos per original typewritten letter.
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