My husband had just come in. Of course I had done met him then, I don't
know how I met him, just going over there to his sisters. So, his
sister—she talked real coarse—and she called him Tick. "Tick, come on go
home with me." So, we started out, he said, you don't have to go, he
said I'll go with her. So when we got to the railroad, that's as far as
it goes 'cause we live right around the corner. And I thanked him for
coming with me. He says, I'm going all the way.
[Laughter] So he went all the way with me. Then, I still run
with his sister, didn't think nothing about him.
So one Sunday they went on a swing over the river, a bunch of boys. And
he had a ring—it was a white sapphire, it looked like a diamond. He had
it made out of a Mexican diamond—they called it, you know it was a rock.
So when he come home his sister missed that ring. She says, where is
that ring And he says, I gave it to my wife. And she said, well if you
give it to two certain girls, she said, I'll cut it off of their hands.
So, he had it in his watch pocket. So somehow or another he slipped me
that ring so she wouldn't see it. I tried to give it back to him and he
never did take it back.
So then one day—you know girls had to be awful particular then—you never
heard tell of a girl going to a boyfriends house then. Now they go stay
all night, and all. [Laughter] So my
mother said, if you're going with Everett you got to quit going over at
Jules, she says you got to give one of 'em up. I said, I'll give Everett
up. [Laughter]