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peg, and a blue one on Old Man Cap
tain's: but In the dark this did no
good. Old Man Captains head was too
full Of the %splendors of the recomine
OF the gray lines to tell pink from
blue. Then nice the towboat niggers. |
Hogjaw and Doc Fortune and Crump,
gave her q. little brass bell. AureNe
tied 1t to Old Man Captains woodeu
leg, and after that everything was fine.
in the dark hut and rattle legs until
the bell tinkled. Then he took the
other one.
But many q night. when the moon
drew up above the cypress wall, Au-
lthatch, heard the bell and knew that
lOld Man Captain was out stamping
the path and chanting Of tho south's
lost legions.
bayou when there was moss to bale or
Icrabs to catch. n heard It ttnkle.
tinkle. tinkle! So that the towboat
niggers gave him the name that stuck
thereafter: Captain Tinkletoes."
Old Mar Captain q. did not mind; no
NV al OO4ye A AO WOS
not SO sure about man. things. When
Inc started the old heroic tale Of how
the child should lead 'em, O number
of extraneous matters got mixed with
it-pirate treasure and tgato nunt-
ing and the weather. SO that Aurelia,
at times, couldn't make out just what
was expected of her. only 1t was very
big and important.
One day when they had gone on q
deer hunt into the swamps far to tho
/ aoof ammo Mnmo1QSa WQtArWAvA
Through a dying forest. she stood up IN
the pirogue and pointed at a trail OF
smoke miles away over q bit OF shim-
mering marsh.
That's a big boat come way over
the ocean a-goin' to the city!"
Where I come from?".
II lone reckon 30. And up beyond
N'Awlyns the river goes and goes
music names. Aurelia, for I done spoil
some OF 'em out on h map"
She regarded him seriously. and then
the distant glimpse Of the great ship.
Amt ! ever g9in' to learn all them
amt I eve goin' see all them n
and states and countries?"
Uncle Michigan looked at Captain
Tinkletoes. small and frail and gray..
bumped against the .flambeau box
ana ne TOOK AUTelIe naNO anu WHioe
pered: You sure air! One o these
days when Old Man Captain sur
renders"
!, And after that. In another ear OF
the colorful slow-movtng life OF the
; bayou-the lugger men and trapper
men and drifters and moss pickers.
going continually up the river to the
north. while h watched merely the
! drift of the lilies with the tides-Au-
= relic came to wonder what the world
: was. She asked Captain Tinkletoes
I when he was going to surrender. and
said: when you grow up to occupy
the land!"
0 Michigan to explain. and he took her IN
his arms and mumbled: You're lead.
t in 'em. Aurelie. Leadin' two ole fool
soldiers to the promised land O. hap
0 piness-right. yere!"
a So from tho first she knew love. an
amazing and protecting love. And
( when her growing curiosity asked
r ~red-backed mar which was n Of hia
"Yere she be. Aurelie. fowin' from all
: the land. From all the states and
h mountains the little brooks run into the
big ones. and h big ones run on from
ghanies-Platte and Tennessee and
. Ohio and Missoury-down they come
through the big river to us by the
seal"
. places
e he SURRENDERED"
She puzzled more over that as shs
sat by the lily boom and watched thu
baby sharks play underneath the flow.
ers and the giant gars steal in and out
a. She twisted the purple spikes of hya'
It cinths into her hair and stared dowl
b at her brown little face. Then sh'
|. clapped her hands n and pointed on =
. Where all the states and mountain
= come from! Done goin' up to occup.
u the land!"
g And one day Captain Tinkletoes sur
2 rendered. Not dramatically. leadinl
n the old gray lines and shouting, blu
70 just pite0usly n without purpose. q
10 Doc Fortune found him when the,
were tie cutting in tho swamp. HI
IN pirogue was u%pturned. and Captain
W Tinkletoes was under 1t in the blacl
80 water. Aurelie remembered when the
ID brought him INTO camp-how tn
ID drank their coffee. Etienne. h era
9. boat man, wanted { 60 fetch a prizes
from English Turn. but Michiga
pr reckoned not. They would lake mir
u up to Spanish Mans Point, where ofte
% the two had dug for treasure aroun
e the pirates grave. And there they lat
= him and the great dream; q lit Mt,
ID shells over which the gay little lizard
scampered. while the hooking bird
~ sang In the green cane at his hea.
.. Aurelie. holding the Indian woman
hand. heard her little bell tinkle whe
g the black men shoveled In the shells.