The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-05
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jumping from one thing o another always excited!
Dads mind like that got subject and stayed
there and ideas through it in slow processon his
that took long time to heat
Sometimes these drives he would nothing for whole
hour the stream of his consciousness would be like river that
through and sands clean out of sight he
would be just pervadng of welbeng wrapped in an
opuent overcoa accessory you might say OF softly
purrng engine running bath of boiling OIL and traversg
road fifty miles hour If you had taken this consciousness
apart you would have found not thoughts but conditions ply
organs weather. of thecar of bankac
counts and the boy his side Putting into words makes
ed together a. that driving this and that used to be Jim
Ross the teasr and A. Ross and Co., general merchandise
at Queen Centre California j. Arnold Ross oil operator
and breakfast about dgested and am little too warm in
my big because the coming out and have
well flowing thousand barrels Lobos River and six
teen the Antelope and I'm on to sign lease
at Beach City, and we'll make schedule in the next couple
Of hours and Bunny sitting beside and he is well and
strong and is going to everything am making and follow
footsteps except he will make the ugly bunders
have the painful memories that have but will be wise and
perfect and do everything say
like this but the contrary eapng from theme theme
grasshopper field leaps from stalk of grass
other There was acrabb racing away like mad he had
long like mule why they and
pink? There butcherbrd, sitting the fence he
he by that And there roadrunner long bird
fast racehorse beautiful and glossy black and brown
he got water nthese dry hills? There
manged ground squirrel had tried and car
to powder and blown away the wind say
Dad about thahe would that squirrels
plague or at least thew had ea which did every now and then
there would be of this disease and the newspapers would
have to hush it up because for estate.
But the boy thinking about the poor little mite of life
that had been suddenly snued How cruel was and
how strange that things should and have the power
explain it, and said that nobody could you just And
then ranch wagon front of them onesided old thing
loaded with household goods to Dad if was inst an obstacle hn
Bunny two adof his age riding back load
and staring at him With dull sess eyes, They pale and
as they hadn't enough to eat and that was another
thing to wonder about why people should be and nobody
he them was World you had to help yourself n Dads
explanation.
Bunny everyday of this boy had been started
his mother when he ebecause
and warm and she had dressed him SOFT fuzzy sweater
brown White trimmings Now he was thirteen and
resented the name but the boys cut to Bunn which
stay with him. which was satisfactory He was pretty bow
still brown, with waW brown hair umbed by wind and
bright brown eyes, and good color because he lived outdoors
He did school, tutor at home because he was
take fathers place. the world and he these
in order that he might learn his fathers business
Wonderful endessly wonderful these scenes;
faces kinds of life There and villages
extraordinary towns and villages full of people houses
and horses and signs There signs along the road
guidepos every crossing giving you geography
list of the places which the distances you
could figure schedule and that arithmetic
There traffic warning you dange-curves grades
slippery places intersections railroad crossings There were
big banners the highway signs made of
electric lights Iona Vista: Welcome to Our CITY," Then a
little farther Iona VISTA City Limits: Good-bye Come
Again"
Also there advertising signs especially con-
ved to lend variety to travel Picture ahead as you
CO. was frequent legend and you looked picture but
never could be sure what tire manufactures
big wooden figures OF boy waving feg Dad boy
looked like Bunny and Bunny said he looked like picture of
JACK London he had in magazine
facure had great open book wood and set up at
turn of the road leading into each supposed to
history book and told something about
once novel and instructive: you learned the
cation OF the first orange grove in California and that
osta possessed the finest adum springs Rocky
mountains and that the outskirts
Sierra had converted two thousand Indians Christian
y in the 1863
There people still engaged in converting you learned
hey mad gone out on the highway with
and had decorated rocks and railway Inscriptions
Prepare to meet thy Cod Then come traffic sign:
railroad crossing. Stop Look Listen" The railroad com
pay wanted through some other agency
DAD explained because there would be damage for taking
engous faith too seriously Jesus wa would pro-
claim and then would Chicken Dinner ST." There were
unny signs about things to eaapparenty the world
owed meal and became jolly the thought Hot Dog Ken
le was an eangp place and "Ptomaine Tommy" and "The