Elementary School

Rex received a job as an electrician at a barite mine. He spends time with the children and teaches them how to play all kinds of games. The children are enrolled in elementary school and Jeanette begins staying after countless days for her teacher Miss Page. She stays after to do homework that Rex had taught her how to do incorrectly. The children have few restrictions and are only warned to use their common sense at all times and be home before the street lights are on. Jeanette begins collecting rocks and making necklaces for her mother. Jeanette and Brian take trips to the dump and are both fascinated with the wide spectrum of items they find. They even wander through the toxic and hazard area of the dump. The children are never given money so they collect and return cans and bottles. They then usually spend their earnings on penny candy at a local drugstore. One day on their way home from the drugstore there was a woman sitting on the porch of what their mother liked to call a "cat house". Brian talked to the women and as she stroked his hair. He declares that she was sort of nice.