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school yesterday?” She hemmed and hawed and finally admitted she’d played hooky with a guy. “I must punish you,” said Daddy. “I can paddle you, let your Dad punish you, or you can get up in front of the whole school and tell us what you and your boyfriend did at Dismal Falls.” She gleefully chose the public admission. Red later said: “That was the hardest discipline I ever had.”
Dad’s love joke:
A baby girl was ship wrecked alone on an uninhabited island and grew up there. Twenty years later a man was ship wrecked alone on the same island and when seeing the now adult woman asleep, he hugged and kissed her. She woke up and said: “I don’t know what you are, or who you are, but do that again.”
Another time someone killed a skunk and spread its smell pouch all over the long radiators that our school used for heat. It stunk up the whole school. When Dad smelled it he didn’t ask any questions, just marched into two classes, dragged two boys out and forced them to sit by the radiators all week. After they graduated they asked Daddy how he knew it
