“Is something wrong?” Sam asked her one day as she was feeding Mary Lou.
“You seem distracted.” “Oh, just the weather,” said Miss Katherine. “It looks like rain clouds moving in.”
“Me and Mary Lou, we like the rain,” said Sam. “Oh, I like it fine,” said Miss Katherine, as she rubbed the donkey’s rough hair on top of its head.
“It’s just that the roof leaks in the schoolhouse.” “I can fix that,” said Sam.
“What are you going to do?” Katherine joked. “Fill the holes with onion paste?” Sam laughed.
“I’m good with my hands,” he told her. “I built my own boat. If it leaked, I’d be in big trouble.”
Katherine couldn’t help but notice his strong, firm hands. They made a deal.
He agreed to fix the leaky roof in exchange for six jars of spiced peaches.
It took Sam a week to fix the roof, because he could only work in the afternoons, after school let out and before night classes began.
Sam wasn’t allowed to attend classes because he was a Negro, but they let him fix the building.
Miss Katherine usually stayed in the schoolhouse, grading papers and such, while Sam worked on the roof.
She enjoyed what little conversation they were able to have, shouting up and down to each other.
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