Do you think God heard my prayer? Do you think He helped me?”
Papa looked at the ground and scratched his head. In a sober voice, he said, “I don’t know, Billy.
I’m afraid I can’t answer that. You must remember the big sycamore was the tallest tree in the bottoms.
Maybe it was up there high enough to catch the wind where the others couldn’t.
No, I’m afraid I can’t help you there. You’ll have to decide for yourself.”
It wasn’t hard for me to decide. I was firmly convinced that I had been helped.
Chapter - X
MAMA MADE ME A CAP OUT OF MY FIRST COON HIDE.
I WAS as proud of it as Papa would’ve been if someone had given him a dozen Missouri mules.
Mama said afterwards that she wished she hadn’t made it for me because, in some way, wearing that cap must’ve affected my mind.
I went coon crazy. I was out after the ringtails every night.
About the only time I didn’t go hunting was when the weather was bad, and even then Mama all but had to hog-tie me.
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