(A Chick Evens story out of Minnesota, based on fact, 1956)
The Icy-Mississippi
Snow is on the sidewalks, in the streets, a thin layer covering the Mississippi River, on top of four-inches of ice -the houses and buildings are all lit, fires glowing in hearths, furnaces burning, as I rush out into the cold early Saturday morning air to sell newspapers “Five Cents!” It is December, 1956 and I’m ten-years old, just turned ten-years old in October.
I see people sitting in their houses: men, women and children-as if their minds are unoccupied, its 6:00 a.m., some of the houses are covered with blotches of snow; some even appear to smile at me-with their shadowy silhouettes.
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