Let the nigger have his time. Out in that front room of Gus Goins's folks are just a-talkin and sippin on whatever they got in them paper cups. Cissy Hall been in there way before it got dark. She's tellin all she knows about anything she can think of. She done told Bertha Wilks all about that Lando Parks sneakin up there around Herman Stokes's place and tryin to mess around with that German white woman Herman brought back from the war.
Any damn fool knows what's goin on.
Bobby Rose has that Indian-colored skin and that thick black curly hair. He used to try and tell folks his mama was full-blooded somethin. Ya ain't nothin but some full-blooded Mississippi nigger. Ya need ta go back where ya come up here from. Them words comin from his mouth is just a-covered with that moonshine smell.