1. Suitcase in My Hand
1. Suitcase in My Hand BUDDY IS SPEAKING: “I left my old home to ramble this country. See, nobody in our family had ever been off the farm where we lived. Never even thought about it. But Pa knew farm life was running down, and no future for me. ’Course, he and Ma had never been off the farm either, so they really didn’t know what was out there even a mile away, let alone in the big country. ‘Son, don’t go astray,’ was what they both told me. ‘Remember that love for God can be found.’ The railroad ran right by the farm. I just got my suitcase in my hand, walked across the tracks, caught me the end of an old freight train, and never did look back. If only I could write, I could send a message back there, if only they could read.” Let’s join Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse, and Reverend Tom Toad as they journey through time and space in the days of labor, big bosses, farm failures, strikes, company cops, sundown towns, hobos, and trains . the America of yesteryear. 2. Cat and Mouse LEFTY, REMEMBERING THAT NIGHT IN THE SNOW: “A shocking moment rising up! Five minutes more and I’d have been a goner out there, the worst snowstorm in years. Then, all of a sudden, here’s this red cat in a suitcase. I looks at him and he looks at me, and I says to myself, ‘Lefty, it’s a chance you gotta take.’ We’ve been traveling together ever since.” Buddy: “Stay amongst your own kind, was all I ever heard back home.
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