I love you ALL.

Just so you know-- Jack had his own spelling conventions.... I think they grew out of his mixed-culture background, having come to the US pretty young. Example-- "dozey," not "dozy," but "labor" instead of "labour."

Because he was otherwise quite a reliable speller, and because these stories are for his children who knew their father's speech patterns so well, I'm leaving a lot of his spelling intact. Jack had his own flavor-- and abhorred correctness for the sake of being correct. Most of you are right when you point out the non-standard usage-- please don't take offense if I stick with what Jack OK'd in life and avoid cleaning up his stuff much further now that he's beyond OKing even a sensible change.

Keep 'em coming! I'll sort it all out-- few more to go yet. The paragraph numbers are a help, aren't they??? I appreciate so much when you take the trouble to bold-face your comments/corrections.

~S~