" Clarissa stormed up to her bedroom.Tears ran down Jenny's face and I put my arm around her. Sarah apologised for her daughter's outburst and the twi...s offered to go and talk with Clarissa but Sarah cautioned against it. "No, leave her for a bit girls. If I had the tawse here I would have given her a talking to that she might have understood but we'll leave her until after we've had coffee. She'll either have calmed down by then or worked herself into a real fury."Howard was furious and he too. Alice is sitting up and clutching her stomach from laughing so hard. Unfortunately all that moving around gave me the instant hardness that pubescent boys are both blessed and cursed with. Laughter fading with giggling replacing it, ‘Jason are you hard? Did little Alice give you a stiffie?’ Face red with embarrassment, ‘I’m sorry Alice please! Don’t be mad I can’t help it!’ ‘Don’t worry about it about it Jason. Mom told me this might happen one day. It’s not a big deal.’ Slowly moving her butt. ”Ma started making a list for Pa and I went out to the barn to work on the harrow. I heard him drive off about twenty minutes later but stayed focused on the task at hand because we really did need the harrow fixed. It was hours later that I stood up and stretched to ease the crick in my back. Hungry and thinking it must be near lunch time, I walked over to the house. I wasn’t prepared for what I found.The counters were covered in flour and bread dough. Some loaves had already been baked and. Just go plow or whatever you were going to do. I'll take care of things. You can carry him back up and lay him down on his bed."Annie sighed and added, "Then you go and do what you had planned. I want to sit with him and tell him goodbye."Last Rites:They sat side beside in the front row, necks craning slightly as they strained to look upward at the preacher delivering the eulogy, performing the last rites for Franklin Arnold Martin. They sat side beside, but not together. The two-foot space.