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THE
PAULA & PATSY SAGA
FROM
BIRTH TO FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
I
am going to tell you about me (I am Paula) and Patsy's life but I am
going
to do it in sections because I would be here this time next year and
still
wouldn't have it all told! Patsy and I was forever getting ourselves
into
something or the other, I got the spanking and she got nothing.
I
was born June 4, _____ and Patsy was born September 28, ____of the same
year but that one is our secret and will stay our secret (after all as
I said before, I have to have at least one secret.
My
Mama, Ellen Beauton Jones Howard and Patsy's daddy, Theron Elbery Jones
were brothers and sisters, two of nine children of William Lee Jones
and
Lucy Caroline McClain.
Well
might have know that I would have to be the oldest and only get spoiled
for just over 3 months and then here come Patsy and my life from that
minute
forward was never the same. Cena Mae
Foster
Jones, Patsy's mama came to our house from the hospital and moved Patsy
right in the baby bed with me! Now you know how I felt about that baby
bed even at 3 1/2 months old, that little brat
moved
me right over. This CLOSE arrangement lasted until she was about 4
months,
man was I mad! I finally got rid of her, out of my bed but not out of
my
life. She's not too bad these days but let me tell you, she has dealt
me
some misery throughout our lives!
We
went to Oak Grove Church of Christ in Weakley County, Tennessee where
our
ancestors had been going for many a moon, since the 1850s or there
about.
Now my Mama tried to make me set
as
still as a mouse, but I got a spanking every Sunday morning after
Church
with the peach tree limb cause I couldn't set still. Patsy was a terror
in Church and NEVER got a spanking in her life, except one that you
will
learn about in the next part of this saga. I laughed at her after I
cried
when I got mine too.
I
remember one time, the meeting was going on at Church, it was July and
HOT. No air conditioning, of course, I was really rustles that morning
so I knew I had it coming big time. I jumped out of the car when we got
home, ran through the house and put on my snow suit and met Mama at the
peach tree. Well let me tell you what happened then, she jerked that
snow
suit off me and everything else, I got a whopper of a whipping with
that
keen switch that morning! I sure didn't pull that stunt again, of
course
Patsy laughed, the little jerk. Another time Mama had made me
really
mad so I went out into one of her flower beds (she loved flowers) and
started
digging me a hole, I had a deep hole by the time she found me. She
asked
me what I was doing? I told her (I
was
about 3 or 4) in no uncertain terms that "I am digging my way to
China",
well guess what, to the peach tree again and a keen switch. Patsy
laughed
again. That's ok, her day is coming!
Patsy
and I spent alot of time together those first 6 years. In our Chestnut
Glade community we had a school, Chestnut Glade School, a store; Nanney
Grocery, a garage; Nanney Garage and a sweet potato house. My daddy and
Theron went to the garage alot to get things fixed, like a tractor,
car,
truck or whatever. Patsy and I were always with them, they would give
us
a nickel and we would head to the store to see Miss Flora and get us
something
to drink or eat. Now you got to remember this for later on, we always
went
to the store with our nickel. Patsy and I spent the night at each
others
house alot, I liked to go there cause they didn't get spanking! I got
spanking!
When we were at my house and we did (usually Patsy did) something wrong
I got spanked and she got fussed at! Life was not fair!
Patsy's
mama, Cena Mae was so funny. She is still living today and has not aged
a day. You know even at Christmas, Patsy got to open her gifts as she
got
them, I had to wait till Christmas Eve. See
what
I mean. Patsy had a brother, Garry that was 2 years older than us. We
all
three loved to play in the creeks. About the time I turned six, which
was
in the summer of 19__, Garry made us all a corncob pipe, we had already
been smoking grape vines, burned my tongue many a time. We would use
corn
silks in our corncob pipe, man did we think we were big shots. Thank
goodness
Mama never found out about that one! I wouldn't be here today, but
guess
what, Patsy or Garry never smoked after we got grown but you got it, I
did! See she has dealt me misery all my life! Patsy's daddy and my
uncle,
Theron was a tough sounding fellow, but his bark was worst than his
bite.
Mama and Theron were very close, remember he use to get her in trouble
for smoking!
Well
this brings us up to August of 19__ when we started to school. Hehe she
finally got a spanking.
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PAULA
AND PATSY AT FIELD DAY IN 1ST GRADE
CHESTNUT
GLADE SCHOOL
19__
Note:
These stories remain property of Paula Thompson and may not be
reproduced
or used in any publication without her written approval and endorsement.
c1998pjThompson
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