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[...]There was a fire in it and T.P. squatting in his shirt
tail in front of it, chunking it into a blaze.
Then I got up and T.P. dressed me
and we went to the kitchen and ate. Dilsey was singing and I began to cry and
she stopped.
"Keep him away from the house, now." Dilsey
said.
"We cant go that way." T.P. said.
We played in the branch.
"We cant go around yonder." T.P. said. "Dont
you know mammy say we cant."
Dilsey was singing in the kitchen and I began to cry.
"Hush." T.P. said. "Come on. Les go
down to the barn." Roskus was milking at the barn. He was milking with
one hand, and groaning. Some birds sat on the barn door and watched him. One
of them came down and ate with the cows. I watched Roskus milk while T.P. was
feeding Queenie and Prince. The calf was in the pig pen. It nuzzled at the wire,
bawling.
"T.P." Roskus said. T.P. said Sir, in the
barn. Fancy held her head over the door, because T.P. hadn't fed her yet. "Git
done there." Roskus said. "You got to do this milking. I cant use
my right hand no more."
T.P. came and milked.
"Whyn't you get the doctor." T.P. said.
"Doctor cant do no good." Roskus said. "Not
on this place."
"What wrong with this place." T.P. said.
"Taint no luck on this place." Roskus said.
"Turn that calf in if you done."
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