Kristin+Corson

Out of the Dust: Spring 1935- Autumn 1935 1. Doc Rice told Billie Jo to stop picking at her hands, put ointment on them at night before bed and to use them. 2. When Billie Jo was invited to play the piano at graduation she couldn't play, it was too long since she had played the piano since the death of her mother and brother, she walked off stage. 3. Billie Jo would like Mad Dog to court her. 4. As Billie Jo and her father walk home Billie Jo about getting out of the dust and how she can't get out of something that's inside of her. 5. At first Billie Jo didn't care much for Louise, but the more she was around her, the more she liked and trusted her, at first Billie Jo wouldn't let Louise go to her mother and brother's grave with her and her father, but in the end she allowed her to go to the grave with her father and her father asked her mother if he could marry Louise. 6. The letter from Aunt Ellis asked Billie Jo to come live with her in Texas. 7. When the school caught fire Billie Jo was a little depressed because the subject of fire was a touchy subject to Billie Jo and her father every since the death of her mother and brother. 8.When Billie Jo and her father were on their way to Grandma Lucas's funeral there was a awful dust storm while they were driving to the funeral, the dust was thick, they plunged out of their truck and ran to a woman's home, as did everyone else who was going to the funeral. 9. Billie Jo goes on the train because she had given her father many many chances to be loving to her, like her mother had, and to take notice of her, she thinks that her father is digging his own grave because he has the same spots on his neck that her grandfather had, spots that meant he had cancer. 10. Billie Jo's father found spots on his nose, neck and cheek, those spots were the same spots his father had and those spots meant cancer. 11. Billie Jo father met Louise when Billie Jo had been away from home on the train, she had stayed with him while she was gone. 12. Mad Dog came to see Billie Jo and her father because he once a week comes past on hid way to Amarillo where Mad Dog works for a radio station. 13. The man on the train who took her biscuits left Billie Jo a picture of his family. 14. Mad Dog was going to Amarillo because he worked at a radio station there.