Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 49

you/he/she was swept clean, and even if the middle one of May, a good fire was
burning. The teacher, sitting on the bench behind the table, impediment
the small play of boy with his/her clock, his/her purse, his/her rings up to that
in a wealth of the happiness and the satisfaction, he fell asleep in her
arm. His girl-wife moved his/her child rest in his/her arm, you/he/she raised
his/her head, and with the whole pathos of an evil and ignorant child
talked his/her heart to the woman that she knew it would understand.

"'I have for a lot of time fearn this thing. The befo in the winter of Las' the
come child, I put befo' the fire the whole night, dreadin',
dreadin'--I didn't know that that--this, I guess. You/he/she is gotten married there
nearby above fou' years now, although me the ai not but seventeen;  Andy that he is
comin' nineteen. It is agen the law to marry himself/herself/themselves that young but dad him
hed a great family and Andy, he was a beautiful mighty youth, so us
the sheltered one every right.

"'Us never the hed any preachins' the fo' the more'n three befos of the year' the yo' everybody
comes, exceptin' when Mis Lawson child died and when Peak and Lizy
he married, ole Brother Bonats come on a' he/she preached or a couple'
nights. The year of more'n of Fo now Andy a' Jim the has' is hangin' the roun'
The shop of Eskin, a' you don't have he/she ever knows 'em exceptin' as the raw one
men that they is. When yo' all perhaps come me the tho't the yo' you/he/she could get 'the em
back, but it was late. Now Jim, he is dead, and Andy--the cou'se him
never the tetched Jim if he had been hisself.'

"The soft one, without hope you speak to goslow mode him stopped, and there was again silence.
Soon his/her children rest they roused, the dog barked, and three men
come to the street of access--his/her father and brothers. Without greeting,
they said the old men:  'Yo returns better to house Ocie. Jim, he is dead,
a' Andy wants hev to go to Moundsville, I calculate.' (Moundsville
intended the government penitentiary.) The teacher helped to dismantle the