Richard the Paperboy
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944, #9
September 29 Richard, the paperboy, in The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944 #9 Yeah, last week was Fair Week. Uh, huh, the Union County Fair was in El Dorado all week. Naturally, it rained, but it always does during Fair Week, so that weren’t nothing. Yes, I went to the fair, and, if you asked me [...]
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944 #8
September 28 Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944, #8 Yeah, that little problem with the big ape really did get us in deep trouble. Cause it seems like we wasn’t the only ones in the tent when that gorilla broke the bar on his cage, and you just might know a tattle-tailing little girl [...]
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944, #7
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944, #7 I don’t know how to tell y’all this, but me and John Clayton has got in trouble again, and it’s serious as death trouble…you know big time switching trouble. Well, listen up and I’ll tell you how it happened, and I think y’all will see [...]
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept, 1944, #6
September 24 Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept 1944 #6 Now, I know danged well, for sure, that y’all ain’t gonna believe a word of what I’m about to tell you, but I promise, it’s the God’s truth if I’ve ever told it. You see, some of them things that happened to me [...]
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944, #5
September 23 Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944 #5 Okay, y’all, listen up and i’m gonna prove to you that me and Ears ain’t kid criminals. Well, first off let me go back to the watermelon patch with two big old hounds howling like crazy right on our tails, us lugging a [...]
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944, #4
Heck, y’all, when old man Odom came outta the grocery store, we was still a-wiping off the spray of tobacco juice from that big sneeze he made. He waddled by and stopped to check us out. Yeah, he kinda looked at us with one of them squint-eyed mean looks, laughed a little crackly laugh and bit off [...]
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944 #3
September 20 Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, 1944 #3 Okay, I just know y’all is gonna think I’m some kind of a no-count kid criminal ‘cause me and Ears got into old man Odom’s watermelon patch. Well, none of it weren’t our fault…Shoot, I can tell you don’t believe that line of bull, [...]
Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept. 1944, #2
September 19 Richard, the paperboy, from The Red Scarf, Sept 1944 #2 Heck, I ain’t never done something like this so I’m having a little trouble getting started, but here goes. First off, and I guess the first think you’d notice about me is that I’m kinda thin and tall. Uh, well, I’d be lyin’ [...]
Richard, the paperboy from The Red Scarf
September 1st, 1944 Y’all just hold still for a minute ‘cause I’ve got some stuff to tell you that’ll just knock your socks off. You see, I’ve been asked to talk about some of the things that happened to me when I was just a little 11 year old kid. I guess, since I was [...]