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By Jack Joseph Smith

ba Try these-pants:om Michaels . I put’ them om and she-helped me peyton: them ups Then I leoked down at my teoes-and ‘they leeked different standing there-under my new kind of name Whates Sraursy mear Mem? They are-made-out ef cordurOy material’ It's very warm and it lasts-a leng times’ De yeu like-then? Yes; .1 said’ softly: Can trwear- them eutside? (oO LA You may: wear: them eutside-en ancuther day, when it isn't so dark and cled, Promise? I promise Michaels Gee-Mom;, look at the-trees-moving back and forthe Yous the winter ischard> Bé glad that yeu havea warm house te be ins? Do other: people-live outside in the cold? Your father: and’ I had’ te werk eutside-in the-wingers Did you have-te do werk eutside-all’ the tine? Well} we-always-had a goed warm stove te comeback in and get worm bys Did yeu knew Dad, when you were little? No I didn't: Michaei But we lived very similiar lives; I meam we lived Lives, | that were very much the samej We both had to milk the cows: and collect fire wood; ,and dé the things: that people have te do, when they livecen: a-farms' How faraway did ‘Dad live? Here Michaels; Put these’seoks on} He-lived a-leng way away Michaels: Hews -come?: His -peoplé -décided’ to live in a different place them my people did; That's:

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Getting dressed for the cold turns into a farm-memory lesson as the mother explains corduroy, winter work, and the way her own childhood and the father's were alike even from far apart places.

The intimacy comes through clothing, socks, toes, and the promise of warmth, so family history is delivered while the child is being physically prepared for the weather. Farm labor and distance are reduced to a child's scale, but the answer still carries a quiet sense of separate peoples and separate origins.

Claude

Corduroy pants are introduced as a new kind of warmth while mother refuses the outside, and father's and her farm lives — cold stoves, fetched firewood, milked cows — get braided into why people lived similar lives apart.