Helen Granger Boss - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

BOSS; 056 1:2:18
I walked up the street and I said to Charlie, "Don't you tell
Frank that I fell overboard because I don't want him to tell my mother."
So I got up there, it was real early I guess it was about 10 o'clock on
a Monday. So I went in the front door and my mother was in the yard.
We had a side gate, but I wasn't going in the side gate. I went up­
stairs and wrung the dress again as much as I could, and spread it out
under my bed (we all had wooden floors then) and put on another dress.
MY mother didn't know that I ever fell overboard.
Kupchyk: Whew, close call!
Boss: Close call, it was! Boy, I'd have got it. Then one time later
when we were young girls, teenagers, we worked over at this cotton mill.
And there were two belles that used to work there with us and they always
dressed nice. When we'd go over across that river from down at the big
hill there at the foot of Charles Street. We'd go over there in my
brother's boat. MY older sister would take us. You could pull up on
the shore like that and sit there. Back there they had a stage and tables
all out there. You could sit there with your boat pulled up on the sand
and they wouldn't say anything to you and you could watch the show.
Which we did.
So we used to tell them about how the show was and how the girls
danced and sing. It wasn't nothing, everything was tame to what you see
now days, but they were real people. So they wanted to go. We said,
"We'll take you." I got Charlie, this fellow, to lend me the boat.
could get the boat, but I had to get a pair of oars so he loaned me the
oars. Irene and I, we took them over. When it was time to come home, we
got in our boat, my brother's boat, and we come on across the river and
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