Gene's Legacy

October 20th, 1937

Last Resort Ranch
Podunk, Okla.

Seargent Bobby Lee McGillicudy
Kemper Reformatory
Boonville, Mo.

Dear Sir,

Boy, the way you signed your last letter gets me (Black Sheep #2). For your information, Bud, the first number that isn't already taken by me is Black Sheep #7. This McGill Wolf pack is on my neck. They're howlin' and bitin' and hitting in the clinches. Yea, Bud, they've really chewed my ears. Which goes to prove that a McGill never lets up. (Notice I didn't say Gives up, I said lets up.) Especially if you stumble. So friend take my advice and keep those grades looking like the last ones. They all looked like some of my grades except that Biological survey.

If you'll take special note on the Northeast corner of this "effort" you'll see what will probably be in the very near future my head quarters for the Winter. Grandad has made me a little proposition which sounds good and which if he goes through with will undoubtedly be a good proposition for me since it may leave me a chance to go to Med school some of these days.

I'll let you know how it comes out but don't say anything in your letters to the folks about it. I'm still after a job in a dozen different places. State, Traveling job with a Pharmaceutical house etcetra etcetra. (etc, or and so forth to you Seargent). Boy! I wish that I was fixed up and in school at Columbia. Man! We could really have a time. When one of your dances that looks like it is going to be good comes off let me know and I'll try to make it. I have to go to Kansas City anyway so I could probably hit both places. Tell the boys Hello for me and if you see that little girl that is going to school down South of there, the one that I liked to dance with so well, tell her hello for me.

I just got back from Dallas, went to the game, took Alpha. Dave and Dorothy Parks. They got married at Marrieta, Okla. on the way down, had been figuring on it for some time. They are going to keep it secret until Christmas so don't say anything about it so that it might get out down here.

Alpha and I went to some pretty good dances, I saw lots of drunks but stayed sober so that I could give unofficial married life a better and more fair trial. And Brother, with out fear of contradiction I'll say that I had a fair trial and was found lacking in the spot in which I thought I did excell in. Man when I came back I felt like all the lead and all the bushings had been drawn from my pencil by force and I'm here to tell you I was tired. I stayed with her for 7 days including the Dallas trip. Her hubby was in Colorado hunting bear.

Say do you know the difference between a day maid in a Hotel and a nite maid in a Hoter? Well! Its very simple. The day Maid is fair and Buxom--

I'll be seeing you some of these days.

Gene M. McGill
Black Sheep #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Inclusive and Exclusive

P.S. Bud, I'm sorry about that dough I owe you but I'll try do right by you before long, and also with the suit for Furlow. Let me know when you're going to need it. In the mean time set easy with 10% interest on your money.

Answer this you god damn Convict