after a while we took in the clothes nobody said very much just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants which nobody really wanted to touch mama come in and picked up a book and papa asked her what it was someone else asked what do you care papa said well just because then they started to take back their clothes hang them on the line it was january the thirtieth and everybody was feelin fine the next day everybody got up seeing if the clothes were dry the dogs were barking a neighbor passed mama of course she said hi have you heard the news he said with a grin the vice presidents gone mad where downtown when last night hmm say thats too bad well theres nothing we can do about it said the neighbor its just something were gonna have to forget yes i guess so said ma then she asked me if the clothes were still wet i reached up touched my shirt and the neighbor said are those clothes yours i said some of them not all of them he said ya always help out around here with the chores i said sometime not all the time then my neighbor he blew his nose just as papa yelled outside mama wants you to come back in the house and bring them clothes well i just do what im told so i did it of course i went back in the house and mama met me and then i shut all the doors