Well, a lot of the rest of the story of Legion were told to me by his nephew, Silas. Me and him was in school together before I quit and went to grocery bagging. Silas told me his Uncle Legion just couldn't stop crying and sometime he were wailing like a wounded dog. They had to call for help and it come in a old green sedan sent from the state asylum. Three mens--two dressed in white coats and one who looked like a professor--eased Legion into that green car and droved him straight to the hospital up near Jackson. This were in 1947. Silas told me they was gonna try a new treatment on his uncle called electrified shocks. And they did. When Silas and his family went up to visit Legion he warn't crying no more; in fact he warn't doing much of nothing except staring at the wall and smiling real big. The doctors said the treatments was working and they planned do to more until Legion were as good as new. But sometimes things don't work out like they is planned.
Tomorrow: Big Bolt of Lightning
Hollis' book read in 2010:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - The title says it all
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