Daddy asked Mama if she thought she could make Mack some short pants and take those dresses off him? Mama wants him to look like a proper baby in little white dresses and Daddy wants him to be a little man.
Daddy said he remembered how foolish a boy felt in a dress. He said when they were little they went to Grandma McClellan's house and his Ma took a change of clothes for Claudie because she was little and might get dirty. He accidentally sat in the slop bucket and they cleaned him up and put Claudie's dress on him. We laughed to think about Daddy in a dress. It was the first time he's talked about Aunt Claudie since she died. Mama said she didn't think they made patterns for little boys pants in such a small size and Daddy said he'd buy him some pants, then. Mack is growing fast.
note: The slop bucket was a pail for saving table scraps and whey for feeding pigs.
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