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Tl1Vis. "'1r l U A 1 T1 E"►S•' , MAY 4, I t ri,
Welt to its people seams always to reflect
the pitiful face of one of its faird tghters.
1 Elott't know the story of May Meredith—
or es it ...;\ lay Day \fereclite?"
"Site was boot May day, and ebristetled
that.L^w1Ly," (4nswered McMoulelo. "I3nt
she was jest CA often called daisy Or flay
—arta mime thet 'd fit a spring city or a
flower tr•onld fit ,ler,
"Well, I don't IcUOW her story," the part
tem resumed, "but I
l a know
hei
fate,
And perhaps that is elites h to know."
"The ether manse you called was 'Ohl
IYrnph,' or `Froplett,' Tell me 0)200 hint.
Who was hee How was110 Wallectecl with.
'May Pay Meredith?"
Ile paused and laoked front one face to
another for the answer, which was slow in
coating.
"Go on all' tell it, Dann," saki the sloe-
ever lit? wind': t. nu. the right quarter— tor, finally, w1t}t tanine110.41ti0aof the head
toe are �Io\lon#'lct,
mow* First 1'nblishCcl -A 11, Rights IICSCr,'Cfl,l 1 Ant 1 W1)11 5 here her spoke oC wit, die -
front
x111111 licMUnib14 51100' file tobacco
It you would find the •'earnest spot xrt a reslseef, shier the (loct0r• flour leis pipe, and refilled it slowly, 5t itla
watch the old l:f Aho could tell all she's heard, satin'
meant a word, Then he rte deliberately lit it,
little village, 00 acots, car, w tL congregate. n
codgerst see" whet they • cong eg ate. summer a` 5'iutel, I reckon it'll there sunt putted its fires to the glowing point,. and
`� ' ilcterestu' one, tootook it
from h
is
lips its
be bel;
ln.
ntLL bornher all"Well, parson," a,) \claiiete
began at
at
' 1 " •o' • , RL( a' in the
•t01151 11
inched; all Rowton last, el I had seen ya i
lnlinicker ben thet's front o' the sto'e clime to the minute you
the fires to ho out
coma )eek here, l'd think you'd boord
calx lay it 1101. An' 111ot•6'il triunes,
about Phil Toland "Cif co'se we couldn't put it milts ez olo-
in her •otte (hay last cent ez ou did, bat we hall jest everyone
' 11 whop sittiu' o' of us 'lowed that sense the day May Here-
u1wked out cat 11111' Well dropped out o' Sitnpktnsville the sky
him to loath. He ain't never shone the sante,
•kt o' the tremens, "But for a story? Well, I.lion't see Viet
ariety," titer's touch story to it; :and to them thet
errs hila into tem- didn't know her I reckon its it common
IL•
St ,It what r
Tt1 at 11
t }
the codgers wench the
tette be, it is safe to fol
t.te do, or perhaps melte a book—an
de, 1
UeeteraLt rrhet
e,sbeencats
an
ow either, for both spanner an' birds
may be depeuded upo ' They
find, the open tells ale lie's got 21
door 5r11(lte<[lfort
I 's 1hcy would probe rag larly wvatched fo
r
ably teedyou to the rrr eucl of tete village last two sCI:sons so sl
store, the tobacco•st'lneddrawing-room, ttktii't oti lit' et 1100
Where aft old stove despenses hospitality Mae a whisky bottt
111 en atmosphere lila mato which, for sweeter awl smash
genial disposition, the
eo unftailtng.
Prom November to
the back of Chris' ROt
e is 210110 011 earth eggs? The 1ie11 51(0 s
ate 011 but si;eercc
lay the old stove in thought he lute 11 'ta
)ton's store was, to shore—an' of a adult
its devotees at 1Nast, the most popular :pee It badn't ahostess in Simpkins:pee•elle. And, be it , per:ulce," remarked
urxierstooit, her Circle; was composed of "Did sober •ober him n
people in good repo e. Even the cats weeks. newton he
win
k i
s e
t IIs atter t
- tramps, the f
')alt ,
' es(n
t it h 1
•h her }
nggtt e
sleeping 1 ,
s
p n
'tri
• e 1d- hollered he
ast ht
+ 1 tlesct t hone L l
Yves well connected, b toy liuLa
ants of kaowu cats bel tigtug to families nn' of co'se Pete be p
in good standing. M ny, indeed, were was kitin' through t
,
• err
into w•1.0 for come t o sc I n 1
had t
I (I In
f 1 shop, 1
10 man opposite 0 n rh •storysi
for g y But ez .
5v mei wheu1e;r'ete mixed up in it, 1 can't
bat. wits the matter% so, though I (tont uev
1
nigger tits
,itho
uted to the hen that Day'5
e sto'e that minute, May ])ayes long yeller
fe, an' all bedtutbled abort her, I Deem to se
gone, et yde'elegiac you see 921e,yoe seem
to see the other.
""An' May Day's story ? Well, I hardly
like to disturb it. Don't rightly know how
to tell it, nohow,
"I tlou't .doubt folks has told you she
scent wrung, but that's it mighty hard way
to tell the story of May Meredith,
"'1S a eatt't mine of us deity, 1 reckon,.
thet she weet wrong. A red-cheekecl peach
Chet don't know eaten' but the dew mei
the tun, to grow sweet land purty—it goes
wrong when it's wrenched oft the stein
one et by a hog, `That's one way e' boiu'
wrong,
""Little Daisy Meredith didn't have no
aro' idea 0' harm than that 11100ld11' bird
o' Itowton's in its cage there, Out sing,
weekday songs all S:niday nights.
""She wasn't but jest barely turned
¢eventeeih yearn ez sweet a little girl ez
ever' taught 11 Baptist Still4ay-school close
—when become down from St. Louis—
though some says 11ci00ne from Chicago,
Jul' 50200 says C1111n("�'-1001151' after some
St. Louts land inert tges, An', given' the
Bevil his due, he we the handsomest man
thet ever trod Simp 111sville streets—that
' 1 out ider, Seen May Day
• U
COS
e for 1
1
s f
,
l
ge l
)Ul.
1 ( t
to church, al 1
firsttime her 5yi,
t l
t
Ys 1
after her -then 5g7>rt1x64 buck di rest, an'
fotleretl her. Walked into church delib-
'rate, au' behave(, tike a gentleman, veli•
giously inclined, et ever a weil.tiressed city
pereon.11elhaved that way. •
"Well, sir, from that day on, he froze to.
her and, strange to s y, every Brother of i1
marriageable (laugh er in town was jeal-
ous thatOne wtis ;Kayla
one ata
ons exceptn o ,
own mother. Alt' be not only wasn't
jealous—which she couldn't et 'been, of
eu)g
rirt • nigh two "" to the old iti' ger, Proph', being- co'se—but she WRSn pleas
2111, '1 e
natwes U the s fol., a r , , , ria„-,
this kingdom of comfot. in ttcertain feline ' over with egg; an s r. he: "'that sort o "Don't they come
lying-in hospital, behtn'l the rows ofbar- 'tt dash blanketed hen • het you got round W"D"
rely 1101 flanked the sure nn either side,there, ,tellin' in stov s.•?' And Rowton he
s at the boys. 'Hens He paused, took a
from
It was the last day
wind wits raw, and co
mind, blowing in cot
throwing into thefaces
in all directions vitriol':
winter storehouse of 51
a promise or a Clare, a.
"Blessed if Doc tun
December. The looks round and win
d, and of a fitful 1 ser he, `whet hen?
,trary gusts and ! a hen anywhere roue,
` f the people going ' ""Of co'se every fe
samples from the saw 110 ben, an' Roy
sky, now a,threat, Pete and ]1e 8e5, see. 11
to how the New better go home and 1
well
i e and loolcetl
U Ieitcrx
ggsae'ly 81132 that's
r think about the
t le
+ lit
+Illi.
CU see n
furls, an' of I think
the old man, so2lxe-.
go you all that -as
few puffs from his
one to another for
Y o )•o confirmation of ills story,
baro?' +, . . ,: doctor,
dd
a dread of hire from
treated him nnigbty
the little girl, she
+ c t as
) .5 0l
1 )
0 Stet L o
1 ,S
take no
notice Of
It
the old lsdy every
town, most
d be in toy ,
o past the Meredith
is horse tied there—
aboveboard, so it
"She seethed to JCC
the stint, and she
CD
but of
b• b
shabby, },
made it up to him 1
site could, 0n' 11e did,,
I Kee' on shoed
'tension an' when 11
,
c
any mum
you. 1
e p t y
gate you could see
everything open an
P p seemed
exec ""\'•ell, sir, he hap
ned to be here the
the rest o' the story. 'To1it't no inore'n
1 right thet 1L Shepherds otlid know all the
ef! 110'0goin' to
' Me and outs. o' his f
1 t:nke care o' their nee(
I "`lou better Pini it, Deng," sale/
'Taylor. "You've brought it 1211 hack a
(heo) better'n 1 cot11(1 a•dotle it"
▪ ,. �` L�" 1 "Tell the truth, boys, I've got it down to:
,- t where I twee toga on," replied Ai=0\icn it fele,
t 1 `i ' 1 �;;;. c " '. With feeling. "I've talked ,about the child
1 now till T can seen, to see her little, slim
geese co:ttiu' down the plank walk tae)
' way I've seen her a h2113(1red tittles, whets .
toll the fellers setteeu out in front o'tlul
' sto'es would slip in an' gib their coats on,
see Come back—I've toile it myself au' ma
fa grandfather."
"Go on, Pete, en' finish it up, I've got
the taste 0' tobacco smoke now, 11101 My'
1)ipo is like the stove, BE 1 iiegleot her
s11
e pouts.,:
"Ll. left oi'E where oft Proph' flnishe4.
prophesyin' at the old year party at my
,louse three year ago. I forget to tell you,
parson, that firs. Meredith, she never
AW )L',3 00t�G• To Cnl7RChI A�'p tomo to the party—an'' Meredith his -
It s self be only camp mei stayed t4 few
1eaa.$D AI'T$Tb rtRR, ntiltntek, ate went home count o' the
horseback, 80(10 intileboek, same atOot— of Holy bele' by herself—s0 they wasn't
' • n It t •bine some stumblin* neither one there when the of nigger
so a t1 ,
n t g
ar 1
ome ,
s ,v
}told irCel O a
• ,ever b z
+ some
,rb sef they'd r Au' alt
ez they'd walk, :Ln i,ittsn lip n r , he said
AJ
fallen' to rise no m0', some fuses I know, he sai(1 I don't know -though We have got
some strangers.' . e hall dozen smarties in town, thet would
"An' tight here, parson, he left oft for a 'il' busted long ago et they 11Ldn't'a' told,
nitnute, nn' then when he commenced It I don't doubt.
a tin, he (lroppeci hes corse Olnir clowt� { "Go on, now, Pete, an' finish. After
into his th'oat, an' 11e squinted his eyesatl • Prop1) had got done talkie' of co'se band
seemed to be tryitl' to see 5Piltetllin' way i s1aken' commenced, an' everybody was
off like, an' he ser, sol. tier t supposed to shake hands with everybody
'"'Bat, to -night,' sez to, I don't know else. I reckon, parson, there knows about
whet the trouble';,' see he, `but, look hard thin: blit you might tell it anyhow.))
ez 1 can, I don't seenlfto see elan, cause O•f co'se, parson he . knows about the
ti I. darkened' sez he, `071' while I handslaitkin°," stays Taylor, taking up the
see de doctor's buggy on the rot, ,
the church bell, nn' the organ, I can't parson. You know that it's the custom to
make mit within' plate'alus6 the sky is SimpkInsville, at the old year party, for
o'clock
twelve
Lncv
at tw
•ehi 1
utk
An'
s1
cloud. Aeverybodytoi
• rk
dark
r dbg11
b,
1 ide e
• rsl a,( y
ow e
_ , ,• t been
now,' ser he, `seem lute the deed is tal+in Ill the cousin 1u of the year. It's L n
the shape of a great big bird. Now I see our custom time out 0' 011114. Police that'll •
)b not be
an'maybe e P
,out n
,lila spread his wings ihang fly luta Simpkins- have souse faille.'
}
cello, 1111' while ho hangs over it in the sky epeakiit' '11 come forward an shako hands
Simpkins -
seem to sue I can see .everybody stop an • ea) nulke up—start the new year with a
gaze up Jul' hold the breath to see where ' clean shoe.
+ ' h in' to see him "'Why, ef'twasn't for that, I donne what
he'll li •ht—everybodt 9p } ,'
1 � of oltr folks is so techy an
' ' sa mclny_o"ezn kin which
16s y1S ,
1 an' hear tot "because you teas here hist year,.
light its thew tree. An .11(11Y-0 I! 11071 I i we 'cl do home.
r s5yu'e he hluln't Yes, sand the Jest e - . Y see , high strung—an.
e that -n -way, Dale'. GO on, oi' NaCl,. You're time of the old year p trtl', End a terrsiagot np5ihhe's Bono lit,' he, ItrecolIect that makes it that much worse --shot of 't5yns
tan went n}, to tellin' it stlaigllt.,> You 5 e been here n eft )
• 'Pete,' ser he, 'you. " e cession o' his, `he's done lit,' ser he, "in n+t for the New Year hatrtlshakin', telly in
ft d
.>, Years we'd be ez bad ez, a dee and
SL-
"Well, that's what I'm 0imin' to do," you, parson? a few
1 "Y I ,las state) d here at fall con- the limb of a tall Ina nolia tree a little '
November, you re- piece out o' town.'
"Well, sir, when
ell, entitle is about lie -loft,' i.. LL nineteen:.
• down, lett ala t He laic, his pike down on the 5112, e s fent er es,
Year should came 11).ference a year ago th
' ' got snow on his 1 as he resumer, his recital.
"Well, sir, Pete i•ain't seen on the""Old People --which Iris name wasn't sorest."
t. Raisin' when I dome dn," said one ' streets for up' arilso'$:1eewceks after that. Prophet, of co'se, W1l1' h ain't to say a "Yes, so you ryas. 1
�a
of two
old leen who dre • their seats back . ""1=iLs, that stove l s sten slgltts and name nohow, but his 111 Ill. w:ls Jeremy, two year bef0uyou
len it
littlewawhile-the his SpetLkyr pushed a chair • heard 'secrets, too. 1 l� [tet (tOrll)t, tall' he used to go by hila!,° o' Jerry: teen "Well, sir, 1
a
arwnrd with his )Una. "•They say thin tag •er, Prophet, used to somebody caltedhintetc '+met tie:plophet,' Day's city beau was
f 1`
her same when
125 of she ate from that it not doe 1 to 'Prophet and party, everybody loot
e arts, w,len he'd have then 'ProtId—anti so it s SLyed. 'came they know'd
i to %vas
n „ - O, i. .
Pro
11
euro e =lit Prop
he him ,rte S
• 5ti
wtUR h I
io =} n
�t L 1,
do It, and he lowed o'
• bin•* that
jest one Meredith's ol'�sltLve ul;;;ygers—a
that he could couvere 'with any t n
head the breath of lees in it. 'i'here 3sno
•
accountfe' for whit' notions a eigger'11
"Reckon
•,
both r
k"ecicnn I got )ot f
on me twist this ate'Me
8"" and wet drops set down and talk t
ettith's," drawled ' was iL p01.800, some uj
the newcomer, deposittl his saddle -bags . her all to htsseif.
beside his chair, wipil1E the drops froul clay what made slim
his sleeves over the sto e, rwd spreading
his thin palms f%.e its ratefel return of
wenn steatite
"`Sleet•[' out our wis}4," remarked his
neighbt.r, between pipe )riffs. Alld then
he added:
La
s",low',, elercditil's 5 Ifo coming on,
doctor Beckon .w).5's pr tty bad off, ain't
Wm?"
'sit
n5ra
ne
i, pipe 0
' n 1 s
fish ,
The doctor was g p P
aedi4Ltely. But
he deliberately
:e the tongs and
he did not answer nn•
presently he said, a as,
- reache(13'orward and ser
lifted a live coal to his pi.. e1:r 1 • belong
"Meredith's wife (.lou ": rtghtfu IJ g
in a do::tor's e!(re. She 1t111's to say sick.
aq!
dumb asylum.
6 come to the bird , "But to tell the story. I declare,
tree, a little piece I ain't no hand to tell a thing so (: 1'tno
.w.n.
ne. out o' town, T tell you yparson, you could Bing it befo' 3 o eyes ,lite
vasknowvu that Mai 11' heered :spin drop. !You see, niaginolias footer you'll have to carry it 0n."
bin' to be here for the is putty scat'ce in Si pkinsville. Plenty 1 And so old luau M<'Molligle, after affect
1 to see 80016 1110, 0' them growth' roe
n'' Ghent thet Sonhy pipe, li ie d it on tri: fen5011' miffs
him, land
' w free al'i ,calif woods, but P r the tale,
made with names, all' they wondered of Simpkins set out in 1 's yard years ago, I took up
' e gall excite -It to call uric May don't know of any ne rer than Mereditlh's "Welt," 1 a tbegan as fn' this is al, "1
the end
he'd 1105 1.
' e w ith the city feeler's. Well, place. All' right at his gate, of you ever that rightly p
•'t Chit )tE:r.
1
take "
"Nis, an' there's no tellin' how much or
how little they L'] -now, neither. Old
Proplt', half blind' and foolish, linlpill'
' r roots
queer . elin ,
i �itth
v xl. 1
the ac
air e5 e
run Y
0
have
.• , to hi
•4•' didn't seem f cl(n.
and talkln to his ,
no intelligence, eigeitly spethkin', an' yet
he hiss called outeprophecies that have
Ie • tested about
come true—even be o' 1 plop l
Mlay Meredith goinl wrong.
"Here conies- P,r:Wier Squires, Chaw•iu'
tobacco like a stunk. I do love a preacher
, that'll c11aw tuba o.
""Hello, Brotle Squires!" he called out
now, to a tall, a[+rical old man who ap-
1 preached the group.
"Hello! Whet you loin' in IL sto'e like
Ithis, I like to kilow? '1'h' ain't no Bibles,
1 nor traces for 511101lere,all' your folks don't
cat molasses ��tuul bacon same ez us sin- to
' d sort o' (team, half limey, no 'count Barky startle'to come awake canclaws,' cot
1 \Jell friends,"replied the parson—never doge nothin'
top o' the Sint you}cl see 1otl.elosel, scr.he, 6 tilCtecUthsstulJtosou
'1' broadly as he advanced, since what he had welled , 3 enough piul.er an 5 ac a an a sharp beak, with take It ftp where I
Day s ulna
ez luck would have iti' the party w:1s at titklu' llotleC,there salnngrnoluttlLe patty of'ttlt.11elnlulntl,llakil
year tie I tell yon, sir, nigh es tall ez ii post irk. , everybody
1' pltssecl of); -friendly
my house that y ,
folks thet hadn't set yep to sea the old year "An' so tvl'1'lt iu tit nigger
ntL to
where
ll U'ttS 0/Riegle
iomen )heto�velil'thet tere
tlaoy 1. 112 the
that night jest for the fine bird
thin'. But of co'se them thet had the be t manners, they set colt, strivers 11.114 they ix Tito ltuclklc it cityfel-
hat till but sech ez didu keel•—au' I w;ss ono ler's hand, half execs , --^11
d 5S S Lil 311C le
out for ten years, cote
fear they'd miss sten
we saw through it,
s d'can.
fetCl C
"Well, sir, that war
ever see in my life.
p
\\e knees.)
of thet las' sort—why we jest glanced at claw. An'I know thea „ e i
0'
us
• mine
parson, t%
e
C 150
n• ••ttnl ,
1 l
,-ICs 1
wits though I un< ,
bow 5 it
5
hos t
- e to
see n
city 1 tie re
the Our Simpt party 1 the feller
5iropkinst ]lte titkiu' it, snspicioued no harm—we eves glue, when.
• is a toler'bie nein "But, sir, it dela t ruffle one of his the party broke : up,. en'
n seemed ttwas
o rim
one of far yo - •.. nit'l�, one—the nigger's 55
out Lf I do . ay it, ez Ionian t, been kin feathers, not it one. • S
to forty -'levee of 'em. We ain't got no, "A.n' thee the ni rerhe
tosit ugly lie, stiuintin'his e• taro, an' seelltitl'to t "Well, els',iticoyice be told)derhUL1the
Y, S } .
though some has piained down consider'- strata his sight, ser ce: story
ble when they got settled in years,. but " •\o5. he's lit,' sell sic—I W1811 I could dozen
nw rlt to the.
nath 1. s'po o it holds elis-
ti}e girls there that night Wag ez eerie& a give it to you in his taegltilge, blit I nes or cry u g
bunch of girls 08 you ever see—jester put- Could talk nigger tank—`few lie's lit,' sez , CL"� nevelie) I r
irl•fi would ead a book.
tke tliethdidn't
n't
' 1)ecauty e J he, an { ought to thaw scab t 1
any rose arbor could r , I got
%vent on: Ser in our ems st).
ty a x21054 0
517111 0115 0n it spring
a rot( .011710023 to study hie, o be printed. We get
' ay sez he. 'I see hee, tt.'t the same birdile oughtgh wrong scab to in y111 011. the eget
"Have yogi ever wilt to gether roses, looked to be, .50
Isis wing feather, is mighty fine, an' good boot. nlatlsiu: is, in my °pluton,+is
SET ON VIE x r oe BY Itrr. DED ALL -MOM. parson, each one sweetie' to"1 be the plu be „. to ketch up all sech stories .1)1 work em
11 you'd got LL 1* 1tdfu1, rte voted be they 1•ISe in gorgeous plumes, but they hers, oyolt: Illi 1' sense freedom but when away rip on 't ]lido his sez he, `11.11' when I ov21; i la set clown an' tell May Day
", e , lay , 7 one flat was .' , see he rot owl eyes ' . 16 book wl'1tCl'tlet'd
` nillcl til 'est rein on Mere- , (t ren rho rose to , t seetu like nobody ;'a + leave off, ate hying her
1
smiling coat y i , " n
d l don't supply us witli lo- dull right along. i 1 make you climb taker
for } all' when you'd git can't see '0111. The all 8D dazzled ,5' t + 1) ick to t,,. she could eyed be raised from.
1 its and wild -honey, Win'
' e arebreado t, y on s • • his 1 c . )e dead I
ext.., - - binge g iL (IO • a Cat, a ,, ,% % , •' 'm lool;.itl' I see ,tint , , 1%11' try to )',rete it
• :Liu bleat au — , aliCt a Ii e ' oft like
t`IIUT DO IitvOly ItT.R :F LTE," SAID TUE ,,teat --blit y011'SCC 1 1rC 7Lp to to , ' ' 3
- times I've sten ,liar hatpin' lip the road way 1212 • Dag looked that
tee tree au' now I see him swoop elo5vtt , , i. 1 i1C the carr, too, of he didn't think
i) t al my loins." l•, n night. b 1 s i
of come that ain't a t1r'. g I can tell her— 1 .116 pointed Lathe,Dug, soft leather whip I had , crevy br
for safe ]see )iu • belied flea loosely 1Ltn1, en' when he'd gi a t 'd t tot► lied ser ,Ll Wilhlll5, there -sal I splelta h s B , amongst its J 1 i 1
or hint. either." 1 which, [ b, 1111' tl:><vhe ever} alio t' tl 'Clair
1 ut no -
I
is .
1 .L
e hie waist.. ( i about I
and tire- nit
•., -i w U
"This .lo
t
'me 1 t
1 a
• a and l
• been ) iL
has 1
,lJae s
t I ,•leu 1 e, a long, y ho
1 ,i sl e w s
)1s a
his cltti 1 only .0
\ e 1
1(1 ICJ j boa
e- Daley
,% ted as� 1 }
1 iul#
„ e. lie r
one mor ,
'1 f o1
(l a "Room 0S
some year in Simpkins ilte he added, c Ro tl ` I'rallh war
, - a moment, an I In gli IS I
to a close. It come 111
an' troubles, an' seems
the same way—jest li
done three years past. "
"Jest look at that cat what a dust color en then, boots ate botter'lt a contribution alt day long,
'she's between Spots Th'ltin't a cat in 1 box," said Meeletlis le, laughing, as 3m "S all arced sir.
the chile gotthrust 115111tnd Howe into his pocket. WAS Simpkinsville, hardly, het don't show 1L I
trace ce Jim Meredith's + la(ltee—an' I jest ( "Reckon it'lt t4Lke iL half dollar to cover thedb'lii e dotinigger in tit
nachelly despise it, 'cal .•' 1 1 playfully
l 1 l i l t ve rho topmost patch elft Lf Ila a gi 1
presents Ile brought 0111 An time he talnu
is,"""Maltee is a good cool
ef it's kelt' true," renter
lor. "Plenty good en.
true, but it's like gray p
most anything it's mixe
it."
"I reckon Jini Mered
the only thing o' his ti
over InipkinsviIle," sal
igle, mem silt opposite.
'That's see' grunted
"That's so—shore ez y,
Pete. "Siulpkinsville 11
toler'ble fair days souse
lith dimmed out of it,
ever shone 0u It quite
.you goo people t
d - reduced t "Ile wasn't to say r, •nzy hat—well, he'd 'a •' •k i` in tl top of yore bouquet tis 5vitrg feathers t p u1u't see his clans. � ti 1 all its a bon,: of need be, my I�ort ,
the necessity of eiltut' pl 1 stand a111(1 talk to lLt1J 1 r . i" 1 l gh t n the others? Ant now whiles I h lel 131 i to read 15,
' 1' ti t tpttst tree 'L toad-frogria thing. heap ( ""I see you 1•now what I mean. Well, rise up,'sez bo `1221' fly three times round 122(6 true' I t] like Iltnl to work the of
r hes h it t
retie( , i standard, as far as 1. can. l "5 ear the lea an' he'd. turn round s dtlen an' seemed to that WAS t y }
% • tat she 8 u there tr o about fol erlu i gl t. She was that top land. r1 gl2t bolo' t}lo.people's eyes, an' befo' they ;1 {l'SC"lt i"havr it. A of luLr)3tless, lllitf-
She s 11eltrtbroke, unit'.• 55lf3be talkie' t0 soaleth]t tl10 Was three nieces 1111(1 wife and she
know• lC he s rrz llp"ill the air ac; lu, alt c • ui"g•rer, t)ct's been nla5•in' roved
tare e s al ,. ulrt N,uotig 1 1 s
over
y 1 wn
woe back, 1'ttle
te totocIrlLtvhannuiu ]nils 1I
grit. They was only 1.
if
eels s1 missed
e
se 08enc
the sky1 Is
n 1years, is
,• t L
ellen 1 o
1 itS
else-but say darkened that call 'see lYo 1 ; t ez ai)ybocly ,;isc+ when he drops ,
topped 'est all for streiml allot hair floatdn w, I )Hiss Proph' jest the
to say, 1114 for, beauty ttucl sweetness eel'
1 to see it drewle' clinitlg the only vacant chew he seated
'1511 8110W an' sleet, himself upon a soap box, (extending hi
ike it's goin' out t long legs and raised his boots upon the
e the years have i ledge of the stove;
"I decliare, Brother Squires, the patches
ne lin -
to )11 was a capital
shotle the state, 1n m
he'd take a notion he
nobody wouldn't sigh
' he'd
)1 lmntcr vhorest
modesty that behutel bun.
night. %, tNow I see everybody's heals chap, an' 1. same
ez, la tree mists),
s), dr
eel' et'lbwu ts- hiastth)et
opinion, and when �An' the stranger—Waal]. 1 5 ll, 100500 jest I lbeat*'et11 cryin'—hat,' sez he, 'they alu't 1 y
oule go out where what to liken him to lttss'n it fs to ono of cryin' about the thief h)rd, but they cryin' i cut out of the co't-house My mother '''
ee
tt bled or iL squii 1 net stalk. atoned the stage about the caller hair '. the yaller flair—tile • • had my grarepa's pictured framed out d
11 his game bag. theta princesv have playactin' �, ' sycarlio' balls, gethered out o' that tree
n round towtethey an give ort}ere when tate- yeller hail. ,
in,a show tent~ s' "Ain't that about 'orb riccollection a 1 forty year ago.
end the niggers— how he expressed it2" said McMenigle, "But yea see I'm makin' every excuse
county that don't s i ,ley wasn't no ilio. on lis slates, norau,
his rig, nor his manner, neither. talked pausing now in his r ` ital, to keep from goin'on with the story,
ropli would eunjei to the old ladies-�riec(711Cet my wife she ""y)Li'�" said old ma) Taylor, "he said it ef it's got to bo told, well—
to iter 1 ez as `"Whether somebody told the Mereditlts
about the nigger's prophesy, nn' they got
0xcited over it, an forbid the city feller
the house,I don't know, but he never was
Ecco gob' there after that night, though
he stayed in town right along for two
weeks, at the caul of whist, time be distLp-
e that's one of the 1tins one, he 1uhlec , ,cs le p y }
here—thatma,tee 1 nnced a bright coda over ' r t uta. to fortune-tellin', hila LL ringer wtoppLd rip, an he three tines,1 Iiccoliect that long
g "An' ' live—an'the titir(1. time he said 'the yeller
1 on the pastor's toe. ' , e about it and advised her to ,oak after f5
fora cat i "Stop oar tallithim' now, parson. Don't the school child en thet'tl be feercl to gout an' give her )L receip6 for bout -felon. She
hair' he let his arms fall clown 111 his side.
:;11 color 3
old fete Tay- 1 shake it off! Como up, boys! Who'll to hem by theirsetves, they'd go
teem, thought they 55aLsu't embody like hint. ani he sort d staggered lutek'a.r'cls, are
ig Y
• nL8 z i
' - ' 'ext patch? 1:£ rny'rith Mee c is crowd, ' hoe cull out forth , Au' he jest simply danced the wail flowers turned vowel to ,YUhttI,"�nee Burk an sez Ile:
tgh et Its l.ep ;carer then 1 ice fel al e they'd give him biscuits out o their i, L , ,eve the I}filters 31101115 nu —well, 'Help 1I1( out, 1)11. *20 ' }r, 1 feels dizzy.' Do
11 1 1 t a)ont • the
ap 6 }} d 4 y g
tinductile the htif soles ,flue,, cans , , he done everything that n person o the you rtccoliect how 116.r•aici that, Dan 1.
'1 acloudlt cover—notall anybody's Don't
,canon interrupt yon. ,
.o, ceras, -
s + + t e year, jest for the tuna I ,ane m6 1 t'1 tit some mistrusted, au' 'lo5ietl tel[ it the way you ri oiled it. I see mY ,three year riga tackle' two weeks,
1 1 )" ssc reel with reed clock was most on the ' thet site jest tool. on that way to lute 1105V bade ain't seen or bend o' stay: Day Mean-
ie circle. wit e1Atul I en h e 1231 lea more seri011siy: he stood up an' calk( out a -vents of the (lith from that clay to this.
„ 5t Con11n' J'e1L1. Au' sir, r ib creek -brained '111* trued tickles, she wtLS. , passed oft , ,r "Of coese gills have run Iuvey with Wren`
're barn, echoed. 1 "nave passed my hat around to collect he'd tall 1115 the smartest "Well, ez I. gay, 1116' party p ' '(' ' �'' _• ,_ /' me it turned out all tight—but they seam %r
• e4 out some
01166 iti awhile, - 1)ttt I ncs'er C.l'- fool nigger, ,v . ar for fire lovele,an':Lfter awhile ft came near twelve
stntn pe , things y0li ever beer el} ever
+ all, shoes—mid • , b'ClOUk, tL11' the folks 4anY1tleliCetl to look
r married men. I�obode sencionel he was
lint(: .\fay Mere- pCC.113, 311 hand at(711nc1 my year Proph called. (111 1 coedit' a VetttS at
,n y e I rid for of Pro of s ow in ce call out
married tell it WOR all over, tut' Harry,
tt the suss ain't 1 ready, nig friends, I<lon t know its 1 Cil the old veer party; an' pnntches that ria, lou I
teed call '0131 out, e -vents scone as 110 alwelys done, ) ,` Conway 1)e forted it out in St, Louis, mi
tit out tutr�_.. its been found to he true. An' there's a
n
int; it' nu tr c up ; i„ht, t v
r ,, fere s je, + ,
with, an 118 0 cat 61-• 1 "From that he come to tellin' any 10 ' '
" I know parsnu wouldn't have tnaney set , •o the youngmen, they got royal. City gentry might be expected to do. ""Diff you're te11it1' the story. on peered from the face o the earth, a31' she
it's maltee ain't ' above his soul." fortune, ate
to the old party one cin' eve1311043' R oeclered what late lira. elonnr with him.
" - att' 'if nu `bony a hint to co Meredith w'atlted for h� dalughter, 'fell ;.o intellnptlon, 1 te, Yon go on 7111' "`.41.I1'that's all the story, lemon. That's
Vs enA.. a enol 1 c certainly: 17 not 7 f `t 1 time the 1 k' ' t k an' no
old l�. llclion- lace it there, of co'se I a remove I lmm - • 1 t5volvestrllce 1'roptt the t l
t t , e same—to 2)17 00- 1 11110w
tion." I Still he did not !draw them ill and the body suspiCionecl, why
"Womler where she a?" saki Beton- , three old mon grew SO bilatiows� over the an' shore enough. 'fore
"My . t pinion is sit 's dead, ate that t fail of covering the parson's hatches with the waddle's would cote
iglu. Iy )l flu d predtc ,babies a
her mother ]cnov;s ft, I wouldn't be Silt'- elle ewer i;lippillg (4011119 that a 011052015211(8 itltvstyv rtiltn one fell
devil that
' • c ef the e 1
1S
el
r III"
1151
p `.
t
li
nticed her *LW Ly teem collected, the result beingtho pocket- 1 flit,' so that itu'
llcr like that Bits : ing of the entire i1111142111 of S3Yla coins by r7„nf en bot1L cars would
• killed i•er.
UuL
t'L
Ines
k It
that
s assurance
end Bits tired of with the etteton itsv
het• t into there's
dozen w •y s. s in' shet of ; ishout good for the best pair of "Bob to come buck
leer tlu!rc s tL dozen ways. f i t3 it is in l s s
ter." i boots in his store, to bo fitted at the pas- May Meredith—he tin'
I.
"Yes, it hundred of'e It's done e5 ! , tw's ec,nveuieltce• in particular. It's 0111
' hold t
walk an
clay, I don't doubt. " i I5 was After this 2nrrt11 120.(1 alt subsided 00211(1 55 n
„Sue that stove how �]le spits staakc, ' and the codgers bad settled down into Ile rioted on her, 11th'
wind'iI Iltake her spit any clay= -seems 1 1 • u fain"-' quiet that the pieemt re- wropped rip in ltfln. 1
east ,)
to gagt
1u'r. , i marked, t ith some shoe of hesitation: site was a toddler
"leas," said'efe lfonigie, chuckling sett- 1 "Mybrothers, when I wn8 coming to- mule -back, with her s
leaned forward began poking ' l 1 die ego I heavetwo names.of hint. len' then wit
1y 1 1 1 tt was j
.35
•
he year 55.21$ out,
e off. An' babies!
• year ahead—not
s but jest
names,
)ode that wasn't
nthretaucl,
ry bf
a81t elulet Or)1711rf : watt Y y011 1Lw' 2 N est as Cf she was
the fire,"she hates a e1 " t wind, lett she ' They are 111111les that I hear now and then , He weeds
girl: , —that's ell.
likes ane, Don't you, it gill, es her
83110118 my people—names. of tIVO persons , din the c
,
"r
One t jumped her out cheek a t
LI 'i passed who • IL 1 . >n w
i—• lei e s
" wt"t
face )
ftLnever 1 ,.
the 'n
' tv t
• inhave I .
. red lI lit i
5 I stroke, w t x <1
0 It L t
rit
�"•, couldn't 555 ,
i e
1 "far I
'0x6 )t,
• some time tinderLk chin." y r w your stationed ttnlon you. One Of them, hisself--•an' fibre She ha
"Look out you don't chuck out a cant of was stn ftnever s]1et his t 0191 ez Joie,
Tire Ott kitty with your' uolill;' shed eld , I kllowv, has a and store. The details of enough to set caps1ol'
Zan )Teeter, and then 11 added: I the story I have t1ee-er heard, but itis in )y her tett ell night,
"She does blush its nett thee, dent1 etre? : the air. Scarcely a vllletge its all our cleat ,w , 1210( all the ht. X'
t wick um ('t• her isinglass batt has n0 matter hoe bite its lit ) . Y
see see het 1wand itx lLcr'sun. •alt l.ow,�
-"T)io1Ns whet, ilhe s flit eh wits." ! skies, a little cloud tt1)011 them --a 010110
"That stove is a well:: relieved old lady,
nearly gits religion, ri' shoots when.
In it, no way's
a
she
thet reuse s
6 of n1n11'5 lined
x•'
`11e
75'12')
jest ex
nyr a time when
rode into towel,,
tin' up is, fi'oilt
t
she got bigger
Ile queen to him
rfront drownditt'
Lek after her all'
t',dost dr owna0d
the diptlseria, he
ez she was stek
set on the fro'
ph is mise,, ftp
e118e theyr're both
s,
"50 d'rectly tate boys they NN
fetehecl hint in—dreew:a' 111111 'long by the
sleeve, an' be holein' back like ez ef Ile
,tirettciea to come he
I tell you, person.
I'll never fot
git he
way that old nigger looked, longest day I
live. ,.xemel like
p
couldn't sea'
CelY
wilt,:, tau' Ito stumble an' when he took
his leaden front te tit mental ahclf,s:2emecl
le
ahL
never wove
open e
1 LiSmetal) to
beetle
"An' whets at fust 10 started to tails, still
0' retain)." on rut' . tlt'ahi33' an' pleggin'
eevyl)ocly lisle lie t ways clone, be lifted
up his face an' rinse els Isis haunts, same
05 you'd do, ef yon 5 'ns startle' to read iit
public prayer. Au' heir 110 commenced:
•al
10 spoke
, Rtt LCC
• et he L 1
":'?e'lliC^-iLtt 551 ,
SO lowdown in his tlh'oc-t you couldn't
sea`cely hear 111m—see he:
" 'Every year, my Mends, I stand befo'
rattan' look tbrno de open ante tato the
few year. An',' sot. hp, 'seem like I see aL
long percessi0n b' peep16 pass belts' me—
sower
sower tt5'O by two, some One by one, li0tlle
es"
"WELL, SIE, I LOAvr3T) 1 TO TM?. oLD
l\'t(llt311,"
pipe tuts done gone out 5 ,tile I've bet'(
talkie'. Tel} t)o truth, >` 11t most, carry
that yon sill :darted me on this story to -
eight. It gives um a spell of the blues—
talkie' it. over.
"Pass nee them tongs back here, doctor,
nit' tome aft another coal for me- pipe.
11.2)' N711111. 1405 'em I'll shake tris this
(t"little. lc. 1
i,stove's ,h
t
/ dull -eyed tul
panty ez any other women of she's elegiac-
tetl.
"11t2lter', too, ain't ,
Don'tyen, oils ladyDon't like wet 22020, wither. Sets tier
teeth an edge. 1 -e. .'lest 1 ''ten ttt his Tinsel
while I lay it in her temple
"Ge 011, tow, Pete, aft'- tell the parson
man living in Texarka an. thet testified
thea he was called 111. to witness what ho
believed. to be i1 genuine wedtlin', where
Little
• nt I.t
. 1 l chested. t0 come fttl
the 1•e! E L
tlL 1 tci
t
hock, an' he married May Day to that
lean, stateli11' in the blue caslln.tere , ulr s,; . L.
she vim sway in She WAR married. by th
'1)iscupn.l prayer book ton, which is the
only tiug I felt real hard age 15t
May
Ly
Day for ronret
r to—she
being
well
111.15-
ed
ll
18-
ed 71 hard. shell Baptist.
"But 0' co'ee the tutu thet Cottle eet 0
girl to tem ;may with him could onset get
her to change her religion."
• "hold u13 there, Tht.u'll" interrupted old
nem Taylor, "hole on utero! Not 11.1"
w'nys! It's 0 1(0011 1141211y years Sense 311y
of 51.013)1111 ran. 415wayr'to marry ane, but
she was a Methodist, en' Methodist she's
tented lee, though I'vobeen dipped, thank
• Gtsleitr2tall, of e0'se, tboto's e1ceptton, Au*
('I`O 131, Cosel`1\iCreel