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A Columbia County Boy's Recollections and Memories of Columbia County Florida (2012) Lenvil H. Dicks

unfortunately situated that day in the wrong place. I recall that someone had to take her home to get
some dry clothes.

Mr. Eastham was Principal of the school at that time, and Mrs. Niblack sent us to the Principal’s office
for whatever punishment he decided to administer. Naturally Bascom and I were both scared to death,
being two little 10 year old boys who had just broken a main water pipe to the school, and we were
fearful that Mr. Eastham was going to tear us up. However, Mr. Eastham was very gracious, did not fuss
at us too bad, and the substance of the matter was that he simply more or less let us know that all hell
would break loose if we ever did it again, and he sent us back to class, or out to recess which was going
on at that time.

Since my good friend Bascom Norris passed away several years ago and after we got to be grown men, I
don’t think that either one of us ever mentioned that situation to the other one, as I think it was the desire
of both Bascom and me to put that matter well behind us. Speaking of our fear that we were going to get
a whipping from Mr. Eastham, 1 am going to make a statement here that will probably surprise a lot of
the people that have known me since I was a boy, but during my 12 years in Public School, I never at
any time received a lick from any teacher. I never got a whipping, although I am sure there were
probably times when I should have.

As for Morris Williams, I have elsewhere in this book devoted a whole chapter to him and me, and our
6-week trip across the country in 1964.

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