5/20/2023 0 Comments The bean trees online book![]() ![]() Which is not to say that we, me and Mama, were any better than Hardbines or had a dime to our name. This must not have been entirely true, since they were abundant in Pittman County and many survived to adulthood. My mama said the Hardbines had kids just about as fast as they could fall down the well and drown. Before that exact moment I don't believe I had given much thought to the future. But the day I saw his daddy up there like some old overalls slung over a fence, I had this feeling about what Newt's whole life was going to amount to, and I felt sorry for him. Newt Hardbine was not my friend, he was just one of the big boys who had failed every grade at least once and so was practically going on twenty in the sixth grade, sitting in the back and flicking little wads of chewed paper into my hair. They eventually did come with the ladder and haul him down, and he wasn't dead but lost his hearing and in many other ways was never the same afterward. ![]() About nineteen people congregated during the time it took for Norman Strick to walk up to the Courthouse and blow the whistle for the volunteer fire department. ![]() I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign. ![]()
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