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"You’ve given us all this! All I need now is a job with cash money I can’t live on your charity forever There has to be sohThere aren’t many jobs, Becky" Patience stares out the"Try not to worry We’ll share e have and you’ll share with us That’s how people get by nowadays The thing is, you can’t have too much pride" For the first time, I notice hoorn she looks
Outside, there’s the swish, swish, swish of the two-h the , I see the vet and the doctor, pulling back and forth equally There’s the sheen of sweat on Isaac’s face, and when Daniel stops for a break, he takes a swig froe’s lips
I am horrified at the offer of liquor to a catatonic, but Patience laughs, looking over my shoulder "Boys will be boys!"
I could run out and stop the, and the pile of cut firewood grows
"Did you hear there’s a CCC ca back into the rocking chair "Ca to build a state park, plant trees, clean up the forest, and build a lookout tower for wildfires"
"A state park! That’s just e need in times like these, a place to picnic"
Patience seems embarrassed to have to tell me "It’s not the park that’s i into Union County Also the CCC es are set plenty of food and a place to live It’s part of Roosevelt’s New Deal The fellows also get a check for twenty-five dollars a month sent home to their families, so in the end families and women benefit too"
"What if a woot is a man too addled to pull his end of the two-person saw," I snap, acid leaking out of a rusty car battery Patience puts her hand to her mouth, shocked by my bitterness
"I’ize "I’m just worried is all Even if I find work, I don’t knohat I’ll do with Dr Blum"
"You could leave him with o to a birth?"
The lasses "I take Danny with me sometimes"
"Danny’s different He’s little and cute Anyone would want to help take care of hiht scary"
"Danny is cute," she adativity: "But you have to have faith If you can’t find a job, you have us and if you do find a job, we’ll figure soes the subject "On Saturday I have to go into Liberty to see Lilly Bitt The blind girl who married the shopkeeper at Bittht red curly hair?"
"Cranant I was in the store a feeeks ago, but Mr Bitt is she?"