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does work for me too. So bad you didn't throw some bricks at them." Fine advice! Then he said that all I could do now was get a lawyer and sue Bud Hall. But I can't do that. Can't afford it and I don't believe it would be worth it. Well, not [[underlined]] one [[/underlined]] of these people went out of their way [[underlined]] one bit [[/underlined]] to help me. That dumb mayor couldn't even tell me [[underlined]] where [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] to whom [[/underlined]] to go. Bud Hall used the dirt to fill up around those ugly houses in the hollow.

This all happened the day before the book club met here in the afternoon. Then sister had another terrible attack of asthma that night and the next day the boy came home with a black eye and his lip cut open. Had been beaten by a big colored boy. You needn't expect

Transcription Notes:
jeni92127 (17 August 2017): in "black eye," the word "eye" was inserted in.