Mother got a job in the fruit packing sheds for the summer. I put cards onto my bicycle so they would make noise and peddled by to see if mom was OK, pretending to be ridding a motorcycle to impress her. The second day, returning home for the evening, she said the management had asked that I not hang around anymore. Older sister chimed in and invited me to visit with her friends. The first day I climbed all over our walnut tree. And that evening, with mom listening, she invited me again. Mom encouraged me to go and gave sister a quarter. That would be like $3 in today's value, no kidding.
So next day, off I go, holding sister's hand. I hang around and show them how to make a real mud pie, but nobody was tasting it, duh, girls ain't as silly as I thought. One little girl of the little group, pretended to feel sorry for me and rubbed my tummy, asking if I might have a temperature. "No" I quickly replied. "Well: Pretend then maybe, OK? For us?" Sister flashed her quarter at me and flipped it into the air, catching it firmly and dropping it back into her pocket, with a wink. Suddenly I caught on and asked her friend if she knew how to take a boy's temperature? The other one stepped in and assured me she did, and asked if she could show the others how it works. Before I could turn around twice, they come giggling and spinning a real thermometer back and forth between the oldest one's fingers, with her thumb. Stopping straight in front of me, doing that thing like that, she looks at my belt buckle and back up at me and over at my sister, who just shrugs her shoulders. "Oh, oh, back there!" and I giggle innocently for them, and they giggle back, nodding their heads in perfect unison. So I pull the belt end out till it can dangle down and twist to make it flap back and forth. The younger one proceeded to take my shirt off, ignoring my pants. With my shirt off, the older one challenges her to try and make my tiny nipples puff up. "What?" the little one with a frown, shakes her head no. To that the older one, even a little older than my sister, pushes her aside and starts drawing one into her mouth, making slurping noises. Tasting a good chunk of me, she was as a little calf to me. But as I cradle her head, the other one gets my sister to pull my pants down. With my pants around my ankles, I saw the little one's jaw drop and stare. I was pointing straight out and beginning rise. Sister recommends she feel it. And with that it grew some more for her. The older one dropped off of me and backed up to gain a panoramic view. "Turn loose of him and look at him now!" she blurted out in near disbelief. But there I was, their experiment, hobbled with my pants down and shirtless, as their captive.