A Christmas Guest

The way I look at it, they never was a diplomy earned quite so upright ez this on earth–never. Ef it wasn’t, why, I wouldn’t allow him to have it, no matter how much pride I would ‘a’ took, an’ do take, in it. But for a boy o’ Sonny’s age to’ve had the courage to face all them people, an’ ask to be examined then an’ there, an’ to come out ahead, the way he done, why, it does me proud, that it does.