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poop-pooping!"

They all laugh louder than ever. "Sure it was a cow," says Estrella,
"Enrique ought to be ashamed telling jokes like that at the dinner table.
The neighbor's keep their cow in a shed right under the window."

"That remind me of a good joke," says Enrique, "One time there was
an old man who had a horse named 'Bertha,' and his daughter was named
'Bertha' too. There was a young man who wanted to borrow the horse one
day, so he asked the old man if he could borrow Bertha for a little while.
The old man grabbed his gun and say, Hell no, what you think this is --
you think I let you try out my daughter?'"

The response to this joke almost upsets the table.

"I notice you don't laugh so much like the Latin people," Amanda
says to me. "I guess you feel good and just don't laugh so much. I
think that is all right. But I just can't help laughing. You should
hear me in the picture show; sometime when I see something real funny I
laugh so much I have to go outside to stop from laughing so much."

"Would you like to go for a ride?" asks Edith, after the table has
been cleared.

"Yes, sure, anything you all want to do," replies Amanda. "You go
put on your suit, Enrique; we are going for a ride and I like to see you
dressed up in your suit."

After a few minutes Enrique appears in a neatly pressed brown suit.

"He won that suit at a lottery for $1," says Amanda. "The man told
him if he wanted to buy an extra pair of pants to match, it would cost
him $6. I told him to go ahead and get the extra pants because that way
the suit would be good for twice as long as if he only had one pair of

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