Category: Short Stories
The happiest, the most vivid, and certainly the most critical period of a man’s life is combined in the years that stretch between sixteen and twenty-two. His responsibilities do not sit heavily on him, he has hardly begun to realize them, and yet he has begun to see and feel,...
The happiest, the most vivid, and certainly the most critical period of a man’s life is combined in the years that stretch between sixteen and twenty-two. His responsibilities d...
2. Part 2“I was on the lookout,” the Major explained. “Minervy Ann has fixed to have waffles, and she’s crazy about havin’ ’em just right. If she waits too long to make ’em, the batter’l...
3. Part 3“Well, suh, she talk like we-all do, an’ she got mighty much de same ways. But when I went out dar dis mornin’ an’ holler at ’er in de kitchen, I know’d by de way she turn ’roun...
4. Part 4“Wellum, wid dat he wuz gone, an’ de fus’ news Miss Sadie know’d de papers wuz full er de names er dem what got drownded in de boat, an’ Marse Jesse head de roll, ’kaze he wuz d...
5. Part 5“I ’low’d ’twuz you,” she said, “an’ I’m mighty glad you come.” She started to pour the water from can to pitcher, when suddenly she stayed her hand. With the exclamation, “Well...
6. Part 6“I ’low’d maybe you’d git tired an’ come back, suh; an’ so I des let dinner sorter simmer whiles I got dish yer baby ter sleep. I dunner how you all does in Atlanty, but down he...
7. Part 7“Den fum dat he went on an’ ’buze de erpublican party, speshually dat ar man what had de ’spute wid Hamp. Mr. Scott say dey got so little sense dat dey go ag’in a paper put in b...
8. Part 8“Well, suh, time de pistol went off, folks come runnin’ fum eve’ywhars. Salem Birch, he come runnin’ ’cross de public squar’, bekaze he had de idee dat sump’n done happen. Marse...
9. Part 9“Me, suh—nothin’ tall ’bout me, an’ ’tain’t only ter-day, nudder. Hit’s eve’y day sence I been big ’nuff fer to see myse’f in de spring branch. I laughed den, an’ I laugh now ev...
10. Part 10“I dunner what all dey say, kaze I ain’t been in dar so mighty long ’fo’ I wuz noddin’, but I did hear Marse Paul say he des drapt in fer ’pollygize ’bout a little joke he playe...
11. Part 11“Right den an’ dar sump’n pop in my head. I ’low, ‘Is you been ter call on Marse Bolivar Blasengame?’ She say ‘No, I ain’t, Aunt Minervy Ann. I started ter go, but I’m afear’d t...