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chapter 5...
we get to the car...vanity doesn’t use the door but vaults through the open window and into the drivers’ seat, at the same time extracting the keys from her pocket, sliding them into the ignition...
the car starts with a throaty growl...opening the door i slide in and buckle up, fully expecting to be jostled around like an amusement park ride...we drive off even before I close my door...
“we need supplies if we wanna lay low” says vanity, lighting up a lucky strike...she’s smoking again so this will make 18 times when she quits...i also notice she is using “we”, so maybe i’ll somehow figure in the plans...i’m suddenly afraid...
i glance over and she’s got a nasty grin on her face, as if she has already hatched a plan and is studying the consequences...i’m even more afraid...
arriving at a convenience store, vanity uses the full potential of the brakes, and brings the car to a sudden halt...did I mention sudden!!
“ok, go in and get me a quart of vodka and carton of luckies!...and whatever you need!”
i glance over expecting some cash but she turns to me and says, “what are you waiting for?” “better make that 2 quarts, it’s gonna be a long ride!”
i hope the vodka helps mellow her a bit, ‘cause I’m not sure how much more of this side of vanity I can take...
getting back from purchasing our “supplies” i see vanity lighting up a cigarette with the butt of another...chain smoking...does not look good...offering her the vodka and the luckies, she immediately opens one of the quarts and takes a long pull...she recorks the bottle and again almost before I get in we’re off...is she trying to leave me behind?
should i be worried? afraid?
An image of Todd's Inheritance, also known as Todd's Farmhouse. The house was used as a lookout point during the War of 1812. It was rebuilt around 1816.
Babes in the Wood
Babes In The Wood is an ancient English ballad (it dates back to the 16th century), that tells the sad story of two children lost in a forest.
Their father, before he died, left them in the care of their uncle. The uncle decided to kill the children to get their inheritance. So he recruited two ruffians to take the children in the forest and there to kill them. One of the ruffians, maybe touched, decided not to murder the children. Then the 'good' ruffian killed his crony during a brawl between them, brought the children in the deep wood and promised them to fetch some food . But the children did not see him anymore. The two poor babes died in the forest and their corpses were covered by robins with flowers and leaves. Their bad uncle was punished: his own sons died very soon and he himself was imprisoned for debt and died in a cage. The tragic story of the two children was confessed by the surviving ruffian, but their corps were never found.
The version illustrated in this set of magic lantern slides is very milder: in the ending the two children even embrace again their uncle.
By: Judith Altobell
Year: Unknown (late 1980s)
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 31 x 12 x 6
Collection: Memorial Union Collection
Object ID: M081
Norwegian version of Sophia Loren's 'In Cucina Con Amore' inherited from my father. Cost 48.74 Nkr at Oluf Lorentzen in '77