There were relatives (I think this may have been Sylvia's pa

There were relatives (I think this may have been Sylvia’s parents) about 3/4 of a mile away - through a field and woods. I never took the 3/4 mile hypotenuse of the triangle because there was a bull in the field who would kill intruders, I took the longer two half mile legs of the triangle along the dirt roads.

There were two female ‘cousins’ at this other house. I don’t know if they were my cousins but certainly they were cousins to one another.

They took me into the woods where we could smoke grapevine (yuck!). They also chewed tobacco. This was rural Louisiana after all. One day we were on the front porch of the relative’s house playing checkers. They were playing against one another and were seated along the porch. I was observing and sat with my back to the house looking toward the porch rail. They each had a ‘chaw’ of tobacco and were spitting into the yard and hitting dragonflies! I was so impressed. I was working on my own chaw. I saw a big fat dragonfly, took careful aim and let fly. tobacco, tobacco juice and saliva came out in a wad and made a mess of the checkerboard and the porch rail. The dragonfly was unscathed. I was eliminated from the tobacco clatch at that point.