Sofia Got Arrested

Sofia got arrested for sassing the mayor's wife. Miss Millie ( the mayor's wife name) told Sofia that her children are so clean and wondered if Sofia would work for her as her maid. Sofia said Hell no not once but twice. Then the mayor came over and asked Sofia what she said and she told the mayor too Hell no. The mayor slapped Sofia and Sofia got mad and everybody knows what happens when you slap Sofia. Sofia knocked the mayor out. Then the police came and started slinging the children off the mayor and bang their heads together and they dragged Sofia away. They beat up Sofia Mr._____ told me. The prizefighter wanted to join but Sofia said "No, take the children home." They cracked Sofia's ribs, tore her nose loose on one side and blinded her in one eye. She swollen from head to foot, her tongue the size of my arm and it stick out between her teeth like a piece of rubber. She can't talk and about the color of a eggplant.


They put Sofia to work in the prison laundry. All day from five to eight she washing clothes. We see her twice a month for half an hour. Her face yellow and sickly. I asked her how she manages in her and she said she pretend she like me whenever someone tell her to do it she jumps up and do what they say.

We dressed Squeak( Mary Agnes) like a white women to visit her uncle the warden down at the prison where Sofia is held. We wanted the warden to take Sofia away from the prison and become the mayor's wife maid. So we made up a lie about how Sofia is happy where she is at and how it would be worse if she became the mayor's wife maid.

Squeak came home with a limp. Her dress rip. Her hat missing and one of the heels come off her shoe. Squeak told us that he could see the Hodges in her but didn't like it one bit. He started asking me who my folks were? I told him my mama's name, my grandmama's name and grandpa's name. He asked who my daddy's is and where did I get my eyes. I told him I didn't know who my daddy was. Then he asked if he had seen him before and I told him he has about ten years ago when I was a little girl he gave me a quarter. I told him I really appreciated that quarter. He didn't remember that. He took off my hat and told me to undo my dress. He said that if he was really my uncle he wouldn't do it to me. That that would be a sin. But this is just a little fornication. Everybody guilty of that.