Dear Charles, Have these strange men come around to your house and taken your dad away? Well yesterday they took mine away; they said something about our father stealing something. Not really sure on what he would steal; our father would have worked hard to earn anything. Though the ham bone and pork sausage we had was the most mouth-watering smell that has ever touched my nose. "Will daddy ever come back?" I asked my …showed first 75 words of 318 total…

…showed last 75 words of 318 total…authority over a house that wasn't even theirs. They suddenly had father taken away in a sort of moving house with shiny circle things around his wrists. There was a large horse at the front of the moving house pulling it along I guess. They also called my father an odd name "nigger", Charles if you are to find out whatever the word means be sure to write back to me immediately. Yours truly, Tommy