Was, Is I won't be long before I go to Hell because one I have to die and it won't be long and when it happens I'll think Now that it's done it didn't take so long at all , I mean if I can still think then, maybe I can because my soul will go on after my body dies, they swear to that in Sunday School, Miss Hooker does, she's my teacher and I guess she ought to know all about life and death or at least enough to learn us kids about it, life and death that is and I know a little already, my dog died last month and it wasn't pretty, he got run over on the turnpike, we were coming home from school, I mean my classmates and I, on the bus and Terry Bettis turned to me and asked Ain't that your mutt dead on the asphalt there and sure enough it was or he was so after I got home it was near enough to walk back a ways and study him and he wasn't just dead but too dead to bring back, bring back to life I mean, but I'd rolled t...