The following Saturday, the scout rings the bell
of the old house the couple live in. The wife takes the child out back to the
garage with the promise of milk and fresh cookies when the job is done. The
husband explains he would like the mason jars in the boxes along the back of
the garage buried in the ground starting at the back of the property. The scout
takes a box and the spade to the back fence and begins to dig. There are jars
of beans, corn, chili sauce and peaches. It makes sense to bury some of the
jars since it would be cooler in the ground, although this isn't the way Mother
or Grandmother store the canned goods. A couple of the jars have cash in them; saving
for a rainy day.
The scout gets to the fourth or fifth box, and by
this time is not paying attention to what is in the jars. And then, by the end
of the last box, he notices packed in one jar is the earring belonging to that
of a teacher at school. Oddly enough, the earring is still on the teacher’s ear
which is now on packed with some pickled eggs.
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