Peace at Last

Legion died in 1949. The doctors said it didn't have nothing to do with his fried brain. They said he were run down by all his crying spells before he ever come to live with them. None of us believed them though.

Silas were younger than me, but we lived close to one another and walked home together a lot. He talked about his uncle all the time and told me he (Silas) had finally worked it all out in his own head. He figured why his uncle were so tore up were because he had a lot farther to fall than most of us. After all, he were a football and baseball hero (both high school and college) and he were the most good looking fellow we'd ever seen in our county. He were a war hero too. We found out a lot about that after he passed on and peoples from the army come to the funeral with all kinda stories and medals. So you see when he come back to the place where he were king of it all and the throne (in his mind) had been jerked right from under him he broke down. Silas said his uncle actually believed that (like the Bible story) he had demons stored up inside his body. But Silas said he (Silas) were happy because he really believed that all them devils left Legion, carried away from his dead body by the last breath he put out. I asked Silas what about them pigs, but he said he didn't know nothing about that but would think on it. Me and Silas could figure out most anything.
Tomorrow: Stump Burning Party

Hollis' book read in 2010:
Oil by Upton Sinclair - The movie There Will Be Blood was loosely based on this book. And I do mean
                                      loosely.