{"id":"01KG07DPXAKXFDWREZKF4F2GP3","cid":"bafkreial5jj5jxlfzlwkb5zwpak3tn2oas4jwhltu32oip6xn7ahan4or4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5329,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.114Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 19","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":5277,"text":"  5052\twas a tiny little kid, and Allie and D.B. and I used to go to the park with her, she was\n  5053\tmad about the carrousel. You couldn't get her off the goddam thing.\n  5054\t\"I'm too big.\" she said. I thought she wasn't going to answer me, but she did.\n  5055\t\"No, you're not. Go on. I'll wait for ya. Go on,\" I said. We were right there then.\n  5056\tThere were a few kids riding on it, mostly very little kids, and a few parents were waiting\n  5057\taround outside, sitting on the benches and all. What I did was, I went up to the window\n  5058\twhere they sell the tickets and bought old Phoebe a ticket. Then I gave it to her. She was\n  5059\tstanding right next to me. \"Here,\" I said. \"Wait a second--take the rest of your dough,\n  5060\ttoo.\" I started giving her the rest of the dough she'd lent me.\n  5061\t\"You keep it. Keep it for me,\" she said. Then she said right afterward--\"Please.\"\n  5062\tThat's depressing, when somebody says \"please\" to you. I mean if it's Phoebe or\n  5063\tsomebody. That depressed the hell out of me. But I put the dough back in my pocket.\n  5064\t\"Aren't you gonna ride, too?\" she asked me. She was looking at me sort of funny.\n  5065\tYou could tell she wasn't too sore at me any more.\n  5066\t\"Maybe I will the next time. I'll watch ya,\" I said. \"Got your ticket?\"\n  5067\t\"Yes.\"\n  5068\t\"Go ahead, then--I'll be on this bench right over here. I'll watch ya.\" I went over\n  5069\tand sat down on this bench, and she went and got on the carrousel. She walked all around\n  5070\tit. I mean she walked once all the way around it. Then she sat down on this big, brown,\n  5071\tbeat-up-looking old horse. Then the carrousel started, and I watched her go around and\n  5072\taround. There were only about five or six other kids on the ride, and the song the\n  5073\tcarrousel was playing was \"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.\" It was playing it very jazzy and\n  5074\tfunny. All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was\n\n<!-- [Page 114](arke:01KFYTAMY884WGR8941KXXM0PG) -->\n  5075\tsort of afraid she'd fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything.\n  5076\tThe thing with kids is, if they want to grab the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and\n  5077\tnot say anything. If they fall off they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.\n  5078\tWhen the ride was over she got off her horse and came over to me. \"You ride\n  5079\tonce, too, this time,\" she said.\n  5080\t\"No, I'll just watch ya. I think I'll just watch,\" I said. I gave her some more of her\n  5081\tdough. \"Here. Get some more tickets.\"\n  5082\tShe took the dough off me. \"I'm not mad at you any more,\" she said.\n  5083\t\"I know. Hurry up--the thing's gonna start again.\"\n  5084\tThen all of a sudden she gave me a kiss. Then she held her hand out, and said,\n  5085\t\"It's raining. It's starting to rain.\"\n  5086\t\"I know.\"\n  5087\tThen what she did--it damn near killed me--she reached in my coat pocket and\n  5088\ttook out my red hunting hat and put it on my head.\n  5089\t\"Don't you want it?\" I said.\n  5090\t\"You can wear it a while.\"\n  5091\t\"Okay. Hurry up, though, now. You're gonna miss your ride. You won't get your\n  5092\town horse or anything.\"\n  5093\tShe kept hanging around, though.\n  5094\t\"Did you mean it what you said? You really aren't going away anywhere? Are\n  5095\tyou really going home afterwards?\" she asked me.\n  5096\t\"Yeah,\" I said. I meant it, too. I wasn't lying to her. I really did go home\n  5097\tafterwards. \"Hurry up, now,\" I said. \"The thing's starting.\"\n  5098\tShe ran and bought her ticket and got back on the goddam carrousel just in time.\n  5099\tThen she walked all the way around it till she got her own horse back. Then she got on it.\n  5100\tShe waved to me and I waved back.\n  5101\tBoy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and\n  5102\tmothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they","title":"Chunk 19"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725KRV1Y3Q27GR0RPHVES","peer_label":"24","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.682Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.682Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}