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Show --- .c.:> ~_., • , ""tt' •' ',I\ ~ • I r .. 'f ; •1 lr . 4./ • _ .,. :-;TILL A~D ~·W:\DAY-LII\:1 ·: . I got t her it wa~ a 11 ~till nncl f;unday -like, ancl hot and 'nnshin r -the band \Va~ gone to the fields; and there wa,· th<:1n kind of faint clronings of bng. and Hie, in th mr 1 hat 1nakcs it ·e ln1 ,'o lone, ·o1n and li kr C'\'eryb ely's dead and gone ; nnd if a br cze fan: along an<l quivers the le:l\·c:-;, it 1nak y u fe llnonrnful, b cause yon fc<'l like it'· , pirits \VIIi~pering-pirjt thai', ben dead ever ·o 1nany yc'ilr~and you ahray: think they're tal kino· nhout !JOH. A.' a o· ncral < b h thing il 1nak a bod., wi h he wa · dead, too, and done witlt it.. all. l)hclp .. · wa. on of these litt.ll on -hor c cotton plantation:-;~ antl they <111 look alike. A rail f nee round a t·wo-acrr yard ; a · tjle, 1nadc' out of log .. "'a,,-ecl off and l1p- nclecl, in ~tep~·, like ~ ·TILL Al\'IJ I u~~ND .. t J --LII\ H. barrel:-; of a differ nL lcngtb to cli1nh ov<>r 1lH' fen'(' witl1, and for the \V 1n n to ·tnnd on wht'n th y <tr going to jun1p on i o :1 ]lor~<'; .o1n ickly grct~:-;-patehc'. in th big yard, hut 1no: tl ' i1 wa: bare nncl sn1ooth lik nn old l1at with ih<' nap rubh<'cl off~ hio· <lonhle locr house forth white folks-h<'w <1 logs, wi th t lw 1"'1 b chink. :topp clnp with 1nnd or n1ortar, an(1 t h('S<' 1nncl-st ripes b<'C'll whitcwasbcd so1nr t i1nc or another; roulH1-log ki t<'hen, with a big broad, open bnt roofed pa 'sng \ j oining iL to t h(· house; log .·1nokc-h n1s bnek of the kit ch n; thr C' 1iU1 log ni<rcr r-ea bins in a r \V i'other ~id th ,'1nokr-l 1o n~<'; on <> little /};-, hut all hy it: 'lf a\vny clown again ~t tl1 back fen ce ;nul sonH' ont hnih1ing. · do\Yn a piec th " other i<l-. • a. h-h opp r, <UH 1 l>ig· ket t 1 to bi] ) soap in, by ih lit tl hut; b nch by the kit chen door, with buckPt of wai 'r nncl a <ronrd; hound asl('ep thC'n', in the . nn; 1nore honn(l· asleep, round about ; ahont thr<'e .·had<'tree. · away off in a corner; .· 1n curr~nt bu:h s and cr osehcrry bu:h .' in on plnc' by th f nee; out i<le f th' f 'n cc a g" nlrn an<1 a wat r-1n 'Ion patch; tl1 en th cotton fi 'hL b 'gins; <lnd after th fi lcl.·, the \Y00<1s. I went aroun<l and ·hnnb ov r the back st ilc by t he a:1 thoppcr, and , tart Jd for the kilcl1en. \rhcn l g oL a lit tlP \ray:, I heard th di1n ]nun of a ~piHni11g-\Yh 'Cl \railing along np :nHl sin king a long dO\\·n agn in ; mHl i h ll I knowecl for C('rt ain r \ri:h (l I wa.' <lracl-for that i .' the Jon · lnt'Ht . ound in t l 1P \rholc \Vorldo T went rio·ht aloncr not fixincr UI) an ' l)arlicular })lan, but· b h b . j n~t tru.·ting to Proyjc1 ncP i o put the right \ronls i11 1ny Jnonth \rlH'H t hc' ti1ne cou1e; for I'd noticC'cl that Provi<lcnc' alwnys <lid put the ricrht wonls in 1ny m nth, if J lcfl i t alone. \\TIIf'H l <rot half-\\·nv first one hound and th n an ther g ot h ~ ' up and w nt for l1H\ and of conr~c I st opp0d and fa ced tl1 Jn, :nH1 kept stj]l. And ~nell :n1otl1cr po\r-\H>\\ as tlwy 1nadc ! In ~ 1 quart 'r of a 1 nina t c I " il.' a kj lH l of a hub of :1 \' he C' 1, a ~ yon |