Legion Goes Off to College

Legion got a scholarship to play football at the university. We was all glued to our radios ever Saturday during the fall for four years 'cause he started out playing right off and was quarterback in ever game while he were there. When he were finished learning he come home to Harper; and he brung with him a wife. He called her Lila, but he introduced her as Delilah. His grandma, the one what worried about his name bringing bad luck, had passed on. But a bunch of other Harper folks were worried right from the get-go. Some of 'em shuttered ever time Legion showed up with a fresh haircut. Now Lila was all glitter and giggling and the town peoples warn't ever gonna get used to her; we could all see that. I reckon they, Legion and Lila,  got on all right cause only six months after they come back Lila had a baby girl. They said they was married over a year ago by a North Mississippi Justice of the Peace; most around here had they doubts. About a year later they was expecting again. But Legion warn't around to see her when she were borned. He were in Italy trying to move out the Germans and save the spaghetti crops. Lila warn't exactly what you call waiting around for him.
Tomorrow: Grudge Pregnancy

Hollis' book read in 2010:
March by Geraldine Brooks - What Mr. March was up to while Marmee and the little women was  holding down the home front.