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Interviews on .uceee APR r
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bout 500 wor,'.s.
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Interview with ,,rs. al1s. sties 104 Alson Avenue, Albuquerque,"I've been thinking since you were here the War dny about
'ens Joies, and 1 thaur',ht or a few little thinrs that don't arount to
-103h but I thought I'd tell you a7yhow. I found a lam no sent to ne
a long time a4o, too. ilye had it around so long it cot tore, Jut you
can have it if you want it. I wrote to Tucumeari for those others but
they don't answer and I shouldn't wonder if my grandsons have .:otten
into them and destroyed them by this tine." rs. )stio rimmed in an
old tin box and handed me a tattered piece or paper with some verses on
it.
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"I was thinking the other day about haw a woman by the name of
utherland, from La les she was at that tine, told me before I ever
met ;ene that some day he would be a rreat writer. Jhe had bean visiting
at the lhodos and rs. ihodes like to show off her boys and showed her
some of ()00981 poetry. sure thow7ht 7rs. „Aatherland had made a mistake
when I caw Gene. e eas the /ant person I would ever have expected to
make someth'eg of himself.
I guess I told you everybody used to think
lees was a fool. 5ven his mother used to say he was a fool, though she
was fond of him, too. :he always thought his brother, Olarencq would
selount to more than Gone ever would.
"Alother thing 1 was thinking about --1 didn't tell you how ho
ha:)pened to oall his horse -00r0. verybody thought that was such a
queer name. Jo one day I asked him whore he ever got such a name as
that. re said, '70011, his mai nano is :evil. Out I thought if went
around calling evil all the time, people would call me on it, so I named
tS .0"
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,ocre and I can call him °ore as much as I please.' hat we. the
horse that used to throw him so much, and lens thought the world of him.
"Then was thinkinr, too, how "Asne always ',And of fancied
himself as a priv,te detective. !e was always mixik; up in thins and
raking up old arguments. Like that article of 'In T:efonse of Vat
larrett' lens was always mullinr; over old scraps, thinkin, he could be
the one to discover something about them that nobody also had seen.
"The last ttme I over saw ,:en, we went to the ntilroad station
with him and his wife. :hen he rot on the train, he ca.. e back out to the
platform., and saw: 'nunca 1/111.8 to VO I -.4 Was always doing some sad thing
like that. ...1ch thins seemed to aplJeal to him."