A Year Down Yonder

A year Down Yonder is about a girl named bloody shame Alice who goes to live with her grandmother in a small town with only her cat Bootsie and her potable radio that she says is her last touch with the world. This chapter is called fecund Chicago Girl. bloody shame Alice gets off a train from Chicago. After they leave the station Grandma enrolls her into teach on the premier(prenominal) day she arrives Mary Alice sits next to Mildred Burdick who Grandma says to stay clear of but gets into abstruse trouble with and her horse hold backs up losing her horse and having to walk miles to get home. And thats the end of this chapter. The 2nd chapter is Vittles n Vengeance.It was Halloween m in grandmas town which meant pranks passing game for weeks and half the privies are going to be on the ground be the time Columbus Day is over. There was a letter move out from the school saying there is going to be a party and to bring refreshments. The first prank that had happened to them wa s when they put twine around her tail and put a git at the end. Grandma made a horrid smelling glue to use on the pranksters and we set off to apply a trap, we waited in the cob house for the pranksters to come and when they did they fell over the wire and the leader got glue on his head and he fell on his nose and lost his knife.We went to old man Nyquists house for pecans but he says we can only have pecans off the ground so grandma drives his tractor into the tree so pecans would fall They also went into the Pensingers backyard to take some autumn pumpkins At the party Grandma served pumpkin and pecan pies and when Augie Fluke came for some grandma see Augie with his broken nose, his scabbed bald head, and served him with his own knife. And thats the end of this chapter. The name of this chapter is A Minute in the Morning. This chapter is about Armistice Day and of the turkey engage.At the turkey shoot the woman are selling burgoo and the men are practicing shooting turkeys. Grandma tries to make the richer slew pay more and let the poor people not have to pay at all. alin concert the money is said to go to charity and this year Miss Abernathy is the charity. At a certain time in the day everyone put their hand over their heart, stood east, and thought about the people who died for us. That was the end of their day. The quaternate chapter is Away in a manger. It is Christmas time in grandmas town and the school is going to do a Christmas program at the church.Grandma and Mary Alice went out to trap fox but regular(a) though Mary Alice doesnt like the trapping and the screams of the fox she doesnt want Grandma alone. Mary got the part of Mary for the Christmas program. During the Christmas program the baby Jesus screams, but its supposed to be a doll, the baby is a Burdick. Joey came to visit for Christmas They had a great Christmas. Hearts and Flour is the name of this chapter. It starts out with Mrs. Weidenbach asking Grandma to make cherry tarts for the DAR because Washington birthday tea.There is going to be a valentine exchange at the school and there is also a new boy named Royce and everyone has a little crush on him. The next day when Mrs. Weidenbach comes again Grandma says that the party has to be at her house or she can by some cherry tarts. At the valentine exchange Ina-Rae got three more valentines than anyone else and one of them is from Royce and that makes Carleen go ballistic. At the party Grandma is really dressed up and Mrs. Willcox and Aunt Mae Grizzwald were there. When everyone was there it turned into a hap because Mrs. Weidenbach found out that she is a BurdickThats the end of that chapter. A Dangerous Man is the 6th chapter. It is environ and Mary Alice is 16 and she got a dollar from her mother. One day Bootsie showed Mary Alice her kitten and Mary Alice named it April. A man came by one day and asked if he could rent a room and Grandma aerated him $2. 50 a day Mary Alice wanted Royce to come over to study math together and he said OK. When he got there they heard a scream from the attic and out came Maxine repair with only a snake around her and a flower in her hair and then Royce left. That was a crazy chapter. Finally my favorite chapter Gone With the Wind.School is almost out and out of nowhere the siren on the water tower went off and Mary Alice didnt know what was happening. Everyone was heading towards the basement Mary Alice saw Grandma and had to make sure she was ok. They were both inside and Grandma told Mary Alice to go to the south western hemisphere corner and we were both sitting down when Grandma let go of Bootsie and April. Grandma said that subsequently Mary Alice leaves shes going to turn it into a rooming home. Thats the end of that chapter. The last chapter is Ever After. When Royce and Mary Alice get married at Grandmas house. They lived happily ever after.