It was almost a week before he mustered up the courage to meditate again.It took a few tries before he was able to relax enough to allow him to separa...e from his body. During the times he was out of his body he would look at himself sitting in the chair or lying on the bed. He noticed that the darkness did not deter him from seeing things clearly, as in his normal "in-body" state. There seemed to be an indirect source of light illuminating the room. Slowly, he summoned the courage to move. The train lurched to a standstill, brakes squealing, doors slamming. The chatter of people close-by on the opposite platform drifted in the window I had opened. General hubbub followed, announcements, people running, the dispatching whistle and I'd managed yet again to get away with no one else in my compartment, or so I thought. As the train very slowly started to move a gentleman grabbed at and opened the door handle and climbed into the carriage, slamming it behind him and collapsing. ‘Not bad’ I thought as I looked the test over. A couple of dumb mistakes I had made…..probably when I had caught myself looking over and daydreaming about Jesse!! I looked to see what Jesse had gotten on his test, and much to my surprise he had a 97% circled at the top of his test! “One point!” I thought. “How could that happen? I had those theorems memorized!” Oh well…. “See you after school Wilson……don’t forget……team locker room…” Jesse boasted. What could Jesse have in mind? I hope he. After two days all three of the men knew everything I did about smoking meat the smoke house way, and since Rose did a little teaching among the men's wives they knew more than I did when I finally decided I'd done all I could. What the hell, I took a day off, or tried to, until I realized we weren't going to be having an East Texas winter here and now.When the snow started it wouldn't put down three or four inches and then be done for the year like I was accustomed to. I needed to have.