<TITLE>17. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63  I believe if a... I can't believe scientists that women, when they was a ugly looking thing, and whatever they was with men with hair out his nose like that and look a prehistoric animal. I believe that when God woke Adam up to look at Eve, she was the most beautiful thing that eyes has ever looked at. That's right. It goes to show that man, even this day, the desire in men, craves--look at a beautiful woman. Why? Because that--that strain comes down through that time (See?) like that, to know that, that that was given plumb from garden of Eden.
And I can see her setting there, her lovely hair hanging down around her hips. Adam looked at her: it was the flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. And see him take her by arm and walk down through Eden, oh, my. Don't worry, mother, it'll be that way someday again. That's right. There'll be no old there, and there'll be no babies; they'll all be about one age, marching on.

L-64  Notice, then what happened? I thought, "Well now, I've got to ask her, and I just haven't got the heart to ask her. I don't why. I've got to let her go if she won't marry me.
Now, her father was making about five hundred and something dollars a month, and I was making twenty cents a hour digging ditches. My... I had an old crippled up Ford, was in awful condition. And then I had a... That's about all I had. I didn't even have a suit. I had a trousers of one kind and a coat of another. But she loved me, I know; and I know I loved her.
And I'd go to church with her and she was very sweet girl. She was just peaceful and nice. The I thought, "Now, I've got to do something about it. And what am I going to do?" And I didn't have nerve enough to ask her. Do you know what I done? I wrote her a letter. Sure did. That's an awful way to become married but (See?)--but I would...
Now, it wasn't just, "Dear Miss..." it had a little, you know...?... I fixed it up the best that I could, and I--I got it all fixed out, you know. I took it going to work, and I--I--I dropped it in the mail. Well, when Wednesday night was coming, we had a date to go to church, and I--I begin to think, "What if her mother got ahold of that?" Oh, my.

L-65  Now, her father was a good hearted Dutchman and... But her mother is a fine woman, but one of those prissy types, you know, and I... She didn't like me very well. So never mistreated me, that... She just didn't like me. So I thought, "Oh, how am I going to get by her?" So I begin to think when Wednesday night come on, "What if she got that letter and she's the one that meets me on the porch? Now what am I going to do?" I begin to think, "I just won't go." Then I thought, Well, if I don't, I've lost my girlfriend. Now what am I going to do?" I had to do something. So I went on up. I thought, "Oh, I'll take a chance."

L-66  And I went up there and nobody out. I knowed better than to blow the horn for her to come out. She'd tell me about that if I wasn't man enough to walk up the door and ask for her, I didn't go out. I think that girls that takes that attitude now, would be a lot better off. That's right. That's right.
And so I went up to the door, and I knocked at the door, and getting kind of warm, you know. And I thought, "Who's coming to the door."
And she opened the door, she said, "Oh, hello, Billy."
And I said, "Hello, honey." She looked at me and I thought, "Oh, my, my, my, here it is."
Then she said, "Won't you come in?"
I thought, "Oh, they get me in there, then I know I'm in for it." You know. I said, "I--I--I'll just wait right here on the porch."
"...?... step in." Said, "Mother's here."
And I thought, "I know not to step in." So...
Said, "Mother...?... Step in."
I said, "Aw, well, now. Is it all right if I wait right..."
And she said, "No, step in."


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