Victoria Forester

She says it__ wrong to be frittering away my hours asking questions when there__ work to be done. But I don__ see how a question can be wrong. Can you, Pa? Ma says the Bible sets out what__ right and wrong so we don__ have to bother ourselves with it none but it seems to me that it ain__ so matter-of-fact. Like when you kilt that old cow last week and I didn__ want to eat it __ause he was my favorite and so gentle besides. Ma said I was sinful to waste food. But I said that maybe we shouldn__ go about killing and eating cows when they was so peaceful-like. Ma said that was foolishness and that God put the cows here just so as we can eat __m. But that don__ seem like such a good deal for the cows to me. Preacher told us not more than four Sundays ago that God loves all his creatures, but it ain__ loving to my way of thinking to create a thing just for it to be food. Them cows ain__ never done nothing to us. Which got me to thinking that maybe we got it wrong and they got a purpose we don__ know nothing about.

At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he__ ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else.