Miss Ada Short Story
MISS ADA’S PURTY PICTURES
I had tried all morning to stay away from Mama, ‘cause I knew she’d want me to help her take food down to Miss Ada’s who had just gotten out of the hospital. Mama said she nearly died with pneumonia. I don’t know why I hated going to Miss Ada’s, but I did. Maybe it was because Miss Ada and Ole Joe were so old or how they were always saying things about how big I was getting. Anyway I did not want to go, so I hid out on the front porch. “Patty Sue Smith, for the last time get in here and help me.” I know Daddy could have heard Mama way out in the pasture where he was fixing a fence. I slowly got up and stomped into the house to find that Mama had all the food ready to place in the car. I helped her carry fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans and peach cobbler to the car. Everything smelled delicious. Miss Ada and Ole Joe lived down from us a couple miles and near the creek. Somebody told me one time that they had …show more content…
Here Patty. You used to like looking at these.”
Miss Ada began pulling books from the box. They were easy books, the kind I used to read when I was six or seven. There was Leo the Lop, Cat in the Hat, Madeleine, and many more.
“I get the books off the bookmobile. They’re my purty picture books. Them people are so good to me. They have ‘em ready for me in this box ever’ couple of weeks. While I’s in the hospital they come by and brought this box. Joe told them I was in the hospital, but that I was to get out the next day. They left all these for me. My grandkids used to look at them. But they don’t come by much no more. I still like looking the pictures though.” Miss Ada rubbed the book lying in her lap with the tail of her dress as if the book had something on it.
While Mama talked with Miss Ada and Joe, I looked through some of the books that I had loved when I was younger. I had many of these books stored in a box in the bottom of my closet. I hadn’t touched them in in a long
I had tried all morning to stay away from Mama, ‘cause I knew she’d want me to help her take food down to Miss Ada’s who had just gotten out of the hospital. Mama said she nearly died with pneumonia. I don’t know why I hated going to Miss Ada’s, but I did. Maybe it was because Miss Ada and Ole Joe were so old or how they were always saying things about how big I was getting. Anyway I did not want to go, so I hid out on the front porch. “Patty Sue Smith, for the last time get in here and help me.” I know Daddy could have heard Mama way out in the pasture where he was fixing a fence. I slowly got up and stomped into the house to find that Mama had all the food ready to place in the car. I helped her carry fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans and peach cobbler to the car. Everything smelled delicious. Miss Ada and Ole Joe lived down from us a couple miles and near the creek. Somebody told me one time that they had …show more content…
Here Patty. You used to like looking at these.”
Miss Ada began pulling books from the box. They were easy books, the kind I used to read when I was six or seven. There was Leo the Lop, Cat in the Hat, Madeleine, and many more.
“I get the books off the bookmobile. They’re my purty picture books. Them people are so good to me. They have ‘em ready for me in this box ever’ couple of weeks. While I’s in the hospital they come by and brought this box. Joe told them I was in the hospital, but that I was to get out the next day. They left all these for me. My grandkids used to look at them. But they don’t come by much no more. I still like looking the pictures though.” Miss Ada rubbed the book lying in her lap with the tail of her dress as if the book had something on it.
While Mama talked with Miss Ada and Joe, I looked through some of the books that I had loved when I was younger. I had many of these books stored in a box in the bottom of my closet. I hadn’t touched them in in a long