FATHER: You were a little girl . . . fou...

FATHER: You were a little girl . . . four years old already . . . an’ Eileen was getting big inside your mother. One day it was hot - sure was hot. Too hot to try an’ fish in the lake, because the fish was down deep where the water was cold. [... … …]

First I give you two-hundred-fifty dollars . . . when Rita Joe comes ten years old and she’s still all right, I give you the next two-hundred-fifty . . . an’ if she don’t die by fifteen, I guarantee you five-hundred dollars cash at once!

(FATHER breaks into laughter)

So you see, Rita Joe, you lose me one thousand dollars from Big Sandy Collins!

Ryga, George, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Talonbooks, 1967, pp 86-87.

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