Rosemary Brown's Pentecostal Songs in Indiana!

"Now Rose Stand with your feet like this." "Oh really?" (Seems to me like my
feet are almost at right angles to each other.) "Now hold the bat like
this." "Now when I throw the ball swing." Junior was showing me how to play
baseball. I suppose he learned that at school. Mother had taken a slat of
wood and carved it down smaller on one end to make a handle. Then she had
taken some old socks and sewn them together to make a ball. June had
insisted that he wanted to play baseball but he didn't have a ball or a bat.
So mother came to the rescue by making them.

June's favorite thing at that time was baseball and his favorite time at
school was recess. That's what he always said. I learned to play very
well. In fact I could out play a lot of the boys at school after I learned.
I think June was proud of that, although he never said so. Noah wanted to
play of course and being three years younger than me, he was never satisfied
with three strikes and he would cry and pout and Mother would always come to
his rescue by sticking her head out the back door and saying, "Now you let
that Baby have extra strikes." "You know he can't hit the ball in three
strikes."

And so it went we had lots of fun playing "baseball"

When winter time came June was the one who got the idea of sliding down the
hill in the dish pan. He wouid say"Come on Rose you slide." and of course
I would say No I'm scared or something similar ,but I did get in the dish
pan and went down the hill and it was a lot of fun. We would always fall
over and roll in the snow before we got to the bottom of the hill. Then
later Mother decided that June should build a wooden sled, which with
mother's help turn out very well. Later he even put a thing on the front
where it could be turned which ever way we wanted it to go.

Then there was the woods where we wood play sometimes in the summer.
In fact this was called "The Heron Farm" More about that later. The woods
was always cool in the summer and there were violets everywhere and lots of
acorns. On the north side of the woods was a large gulf, chasm open place
and on our side was a large tree with a vine hanging where we could swing.
And of course June was the first to swing. "come on Rose swing." I'd say
"Oh no I'm scared." What I really was thinking if Momma found out we were
swinging out over the gulley I could feel that switch around my legs. It did
look like fun and as usual I did swing. I had to hold on real tight by some
act of a guardian angel maybe we never did fall.

Now I could climb a tree as good
as Mr. Anybody but when June said "Rose let me see you climb that tree."
I'm thinking, you have got to be kidding , in order for me to climb a tree
it's got to have limbs down where I can reach. But he wasn't kidding. "How
am I going to do that.?" Just shinny up the tree. So he proceeded to
"shinny" up the tree. He said you have to go real fast. Like going up the
hill in the slick snow I guessed. Well I tried and I did it and it was
fun.

June the teacher

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