Deviation Actions
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Do ya’ll know what a double fireplace is?
Me and my brother Sonny and my Mama lived in a house one time what had a double fire place. What that means is you sit in the one room in front of the fireplace and right directly across the backside of that fire is another fireplace what’s hooked to the same chimney.
I was as scared of the dark as any man who ever lived. Or any youngin’ who ever lived I’ll guarantee ya. My brother Sonny would always make me sit in front of this fireplace until I’d get so sleepy that I’d fall out in the floor, or either have to walk around in the dark by myself and go to bed.
This night he sweated me, until I went on in there, I felt my way around through the kitchen and through the side room and then back into the bed, and when I got back into the bedroom on the other side of the fireplace I saw Mama had moved the furniture.
Every night, Sonny, after I got in the bed and got it warm he’d get him a big runnin’ start ‘boogadee boogadee boogadee’ here he’d come and he’d leave the floor and jump up in my back up in the middle of that bed.
Just as I walked into the room, there is the bed right by the door. Over yonder where the bed used to be is the chifferobe. And I ’s layin’ there thinkin’, I said ‘Do you reckon Sonny knows that Mama has moved this bed?’
Directly I heard him comin ‘boogadee boogadee boogadee’ here he come; I felt the air from him, when he run by the door right there where I was layin’ ‘phft’ and his feet left the floor and it sounded like for several seconds he was up in the air, Whoomb</b> whoomb whoomb whoomb</i> he come down flat of his stomach skidded across that ole wooden floor and his head hit the far side of that room right under the chifferobe Whoomb</i></b> and jarred the whole house.
Here come Mama with the lamp, a holdin up above her head, “What in the world has happened to you youngin’s?”
And I’m layin in the bed gigglin’ “Heeheehee HEEheeheehee”
“So good gracious alive…” Sonny was squallin’.
We got him up out of the middle of the floor and lit the other lamp and we picked splinters outta him and dabbed Mecuricome on him till daylight. It took that long to get Mecuricome dabbed on him where all them splinters had stuck into him.
