| Fannie talks about herself
Council Bluffs III
[Q. When we lived in Council Bluffs, next to us there was..
A...well, it doesn't make any difference now. But two dogs begin to fight, and you were only about two years old, and you were just standing right there, and I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to let you stand there, but the dogs didn't care where you were, and you didn't care where you dogs were, but they were just fighting something awful, and you didn't seem to worry about it, so I just stole my way in beside them. I just picked you up and walked away. You were maybe two years. I don't think you were even that old.
Q. I was probably too young to know...too young to be frightened.
A. Yeah
Q. There was a boy next door, named Earl. I went to his birthday party. Do you remember that?
A. I didn't think they'd invite you, but maybe you did have...see, you were two years old when he was four years old, and he was one of them...four when you were two. So I don't think they'd invite you unless you...maybe you were. But there was one boy, Billy, up the street. He was the meanest thing, and everybody hated him. So one time we had a flood. You know, really a flood. And the streets...they didn't have any sewers or something. The streets were just full of water. And this boy got stuck...Billy. He was six years old. You were two. And the next one was Earl. He was four. And the girl...the woman across the street, you know, she was something...this boy got stuck in the middle and started crying. So she was glad. She just told him, "I'm glad you got stuck." And she was glad. [Laughs] I didn't want to say anything so I kept still. I kept feeling that I was glad too. He was always hitting you. You were two years old, and he was six. He was such a big horse.
Q. Yeah, I remember Earl. It was Earl...
A. Earl was a nice...he was a little blond boy. He was four, and this boy was six, and he was mean as the dickens.
Q. See, when we moved out to Fifth Avenue, I was four, so, you know, I could have gone to a birthday party.
A. Maybe. I didn't think it was Earl's birthday party. I don't think they made a party.
Q. Did we have a garden in that house on Avenue C?
A. Yes. I made the garden. Was it a success! Wow.
Q. I remember it. Horse radish on Avenue C. Great big horse radish. I remember Daddy pulling...Daddy and, I think, Yossel pulling up a big root.
A. Oh, yeah. I think it was growing wild. We never planted it. So I used to tear out a piece. I didn't care for it because I had to make the horse radish, you know.
Q. Hard on your eyes.
A. Yeah. Hard on the nose too. Well, I made it |
