MY FATHER, HIS WIVES AND I the trouble with my father was his endless desire for wives and children. or perhaps I should say children and wives .right he has five wives, the youngest a mere girl whom he married last year .and he is at least sixty-eight, possibly seventy. he gets a small pension which would be adequate from him if he had a small family instead of his present thirsty-five children. of course he doesn’t even make any pretence of providing for his family nowadays . he leaves every wife to her own devices . it is not too bad for the older ones like mama whose grown-up children help to support them ; but the younger ones have to find their children’s school fees from farming and petty trading. all the old man does is b himself a jar of palm-wine every morning and a bottle of schnapps now again. recently he had plunging in c the politics of our village and was the local chairman of the P.O.P. my father and I had our most serious quarrel about eighteen months ago when I told him to his face that he was crazy to be planning to marry his fifth wife. in anger I said he was storing up trouble for others. this was of course a most reprehensible remark to make. the meaning was that I didn’t expect him to have much longer to live . which was indelicate and wicked . had mama not intervened he probably would have pronounced a curse on me . as it was, he satisfied himself by merely vowing never to touch a penny of mine since he must not store up trouble for me. mama persuaded me to sue for peace by going down on my knees to ask forgiveness and making a peace offering of a bottle of schnapps…
Mon père, ses femmes et je le problème avec mon père était son désir sans fin pour les femmes et les enfants . ou peut-être devrais-je dire les enfants et les femmes . droite, il a cinq femmes , le plus jeune d'une simple fille qu'il a épousée l'année dernière . , et il est au moins soixante-huit , peut-être soixante-dix. il reçoit une petite pension qui serait adéquat de