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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
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Finding the "Last" Strawberry
Joss's finding the "last" strawberry is actually a kind of quote. When we moved to rural New Hampshire, our next door neighbor, Ingy, who was profoundly deaf, had worked in the forestry department of the state. He supervised the planting of trees by the roadside etc. He told us about one stand of trees, that we often pass by. He said that all day long, working in hot weather, the members of his crew were always looking for one thing: the "last" tree to be planted that day. of course, Ingy was the one who decided which tree that was. In this case, however, Joss has made his own such decision, infuriating his sister.
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A Buss from Lafayette
Well, I thought, at least for once, Joss has to do “women’s work.” How wonderful that Father forbade his wife to work under the hot sun and ordered Joss to pick the strawberries with me! Prissy would not have been able to bend over in her present condition, anyway.
“Well, I have been looking for it all day, and here it is—finally!” Joss suddenly said, holding a strawberry high above his head as if in celebration of something.
“What’s that?”
“The very last strawberry. I think I have found it! Or at least it is the last one for me. I am going to take a swim in the pond. I have definitely earned it today, slaving away in this awful heat. I do not know why I had to do girl’s work, anyway. I am glad none of my friends happened by. That would have been humiliating!”
“There’s still half a row to go, Joss! You cannot leave now and make me finish alone. That’s not fair!”
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