I'm Benny,
Thanks a lot, dear Wolfgang Hampel for sharing your fantastic stories, interviews and friends with us. Wolfgang Hampel is a genius because he did what so many Betty MacDonald Fans wanted to do for such a long time. We can't wait to listen to Wolfgang Hampel's many other Betty MacDonald interviews and stories.
We enjoy Letizia Mancino's story very much. We are very happy and grateful to read Part II of her great story. Part III will follow very soon.
We can offer you a special Betty MacDonald Fan Club Service. As Betty MacDonald Fan Club has so many international fans we are going to publish Letizia Mancino's charming story in italian and german language.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club proudly presents:
Part II of the amazing, very witty, charming, intelligent story written by our brilliant new Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honor Member, artist and writer Letizia Mancino.
BOB, STOVE AND GETTING UP AT 4 O' CLOCK
Copyright 2011 by Letizia Mancino
All rights reserved
Translated by D. Tsiaprakas
Betty can do everything Damned farm! The slightest kind of culture is missing: Only Betty „is“ everything! That Bob! I would have died with him at the farm! Mamma mia, che coraggio, what a test of courage for a cultivated woman to be living with such a ruffian for four years!
To get two children with him! Betty was „so“ twice. Still she doesn't tell how she got „so“. Prudish America! The reader is told only that she became pregnant! However, about miscarriages and illegal abortions he'll get ever so much information! I'm not eager to know it in greater detail.
Did Betty know how she became pregnant? Perhaps not, too: She and Bob simply went to bed, drunk. These vast amounts of bootlegged whisky must have had some „side effects“. Bob is a beautiful, strong man. Be it so, however, much alcohol makes all members listless (him who has ears shall listen)! „Man becomes weak, but the tomcat strong“! Said even my little author kitten Schönkopf to a drunk Goethe. Betty, your Bob can go hang! I know such types only from a far, thank God, and not personally.
A, the beautiful rough men! They swim in the cold ocean, fell the wood, aren't sensitive to the weather, shoot the wild animals and bring them to the woman to roast! I can understand Betty! She's been too young: She's been a little finecat lady fond of adventures! She lost her head for a wild tomcat! Alla waste of time?
No, all for the Chicken! Since Bob lost his head for chickens! He had eyes solely for his chickens! Now I know it: Corns (in German called Chickens' eyes) men have got who are lying at the feet of chickens! Bob should have married a laying hen! Not a greatwriter lady.
But why has Betty done everything for his five hundred „mistresses“? Has she actually liked it at all working at a chickens' farm (chicken's harem)? No, only to earn Bob's love, to please the husband! Her mother told her and her sisters: „It would be the inevitable duty of a good housewife to take care of it so that her spouse feels good at his work“. Accept joyfully the consequences that result of it!
That's it! Like in Southern Italy! Poor Betty, she has stranded at an old farm far from a town. The nearest neighbours were two miles away. No culture! Only noise: STOVE concerts instead of Gospel concerts! This Bob was an impossible fellow! He has built a henhouse with every comfort for his chickens (mistresses always get presents, money one saves with the wife) and for Betty only a house without water and toilet! Hard life at the farm!!! With crisp cold to go to the toilet.
Getting up at 4 o'clock...No „master“ Bob! And neither „STOVE“: One doesn't play so outrageously with a woman's patience!
Goodbye, arrivederci, Betty! We'll meet on Vashon Island.
Goodbye, arrivederci, dear Betty MacDonald Fans. We'll meet in May 2011.
Yours,
Benny
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