I REMEMBER ONE THING HE done one time. I was raised with him over in the tenth. I was ahead of him in
school. He lost a softball down off the road that rolled down into this field about... it was way off down in a bunch
of briers and stuff and he told this boy, this Finney boy, told him to go and get it. Finney boy was some bit
younger'n him. Told him, said: Go get that softball. Finney boy wouldn't do it. Lester walked up to him and said:
You better go get that ball. Finney boy said he wasn't about to do it and Lester told him one more time, said: You
don't get off down in there and get me that ball I'm goin to bust you in the mouth. That Finney boy was scared but
he faced up to him, told him he hadn't thowed it off down in there. Well, we was standin there, the way you will.
Ballard could of let it go. He seen the boy wasn't goin to do what he ast him. He just stood there a minute and then
he punched him in the face. Blood flew out of the Finney boy's nose and he set down in the road. Just for a minute
and then he got up. Somebody give him a kerchief and he put it to his nose. It was all swoll up and bleedin. The
Finney boy just looked at Lester Ballard and went on up the road. I felt, I felt... I don't know what it was.