They All Eat

May Margaret asked Cleveron to slice some turkey. That was one of the things he does best. He could have been a great surgeon if cooked turkeys was all he had to operate on. Y'all pass your plates down to Cleveron and tell him what you want, white or dark meat. We got both. Pass to the left please. Esther Agnes reminded everyone to try her rice and gravy and her lime Jell-O. I spent a lot of time cutting up celery and bananas. They passed green bean casserole, beets, turnips, turnip greens, two kinds of dressing--one with oysters, one without. There was ambrosia, sweet potatoes, and macaroni and cheese. For dessert they had potato pie, coconut cake, three kinds of fruit cake, pecan pie, and three kinds of ice cream. After they was sufficiently stuffed everybody got out their cigarettes. Clara Susan swore everybody smokes a different brand. Betty Faye lit up and May Margaret asked her if she warn't afraid to smoke with her being in a family way. She said she smoked while all the other ones was in the over and they turned our just fine. Esther Agnes said that warn't so. All them kids was marked for smoking. Right down at the end of their spine they all had this little butt. Clara Susan, don't smoke, so she left the room and carried her book into the living room. May Margaret remarked that she had never heard of The English Patient and she didn't know of the English being all that patient. They sure warn't patient with George Washington and all them columnists.
Tomorrow: Handing Out the Gifts

Hollis' funny name of the day:
Frances Snooty (need I say more)