Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-07
SOWING SEEDS IN
BY NELLIE L. McCLUNG
.v,bor Of "The Next Of Kin" "Three Times and QUIZ etc.

fallen down at all, he says, that's just
a song" 80
All day long the air had been heavy
and close, and that night while Pearl
was asleep the face Of the heavens was
darkened with storm clouds. Great roll.
ing masses came up from the west, shot
through with flashes Of lightning. and
the heavy silence was more ominous
than the loudest thunder would have
been. The wind began in the hills.
gusty and ftful at first, then bursting
with violence over the plain below.
There was a cutting whine In II, like the
whang Of stretched steel, fateful. deadly
MS the singing Of bullets. chilling the
farmers heart, for he knows IL means
hail. ~
Pearl woke and sat up in bed. The
lightning flashed in the little window.
leaving, the room as black as ink. She
listened to the whistling wind.
-, It's the hail. she whispered de,
iightedly. II knew the Lord would
find a way to open the windy without
me putin my fist through it'll have
to look at the clouds TO see II tbey
have that white edge on them. No.
won't either-it isn't my nut in. I'll
just lave the Lord alone. Nothin'
makes me madden than when / promise
tommy or mary or any OF them some
thlng n then nave them frettin' all
the tim about whether or not I'll get IL
done.
I'D like to see the clouds, though. I'll
bet they're a sight, just like what
Camilla sings about:
Dark is His path on the wings o. the
storm.
In the kitchen below the Mother.
wells gathered with pole faces rrbo
windows shook and rnttled in thor
castings. w
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Mrs, MotbeyveII said '''ts I'LL,
"oTbat,s n,hora tbn ,;,Stn;., ,tuhnops'
Toms teeth ware cbattor;na s''"es'
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ousIy ..shn;u naror haa. itrntenp'u-
ri. ,sIe lever hear II.
hraotb s Wiinu su uuf ceased. NOT a
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on the rnef on H. JLavN e,ash'
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baoy;or ha,d"r Dots ,nao oMM ~ s.ones,
h%oatina t%G % un''' II was one
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1. soon.o5 leW m,nuies' .nousI
!. tennnn nonseF w. lnose WHO iisteneu
~ m ~ sne hiienen.
u roSr Erew iess auu ISss anu az
.as. eeaseu a,~iosether' I'M only q gentle
rasn wus ianing.,
;ns y nSSa I've ga. WITHOUT speak,
thS.o LOU have Gneateo the LORD az
.nese Years anu ne nus Dorne win
YOU .rsihs 10 MIKE you pay up WIN
out hapsn Proceeuings ne round MN
Tn repea'ine tne minister words.
Souau hnis 9e wnat nc meant by harsh
proceyoihEs Certaihiy !. was harsn
enough taxing away a mans crop after
all MS hard work.
sam was lull OF selt,pity. mere
were very rev men VINO a ever oeen
treated US padly as ne felt himself to
pe, -, .
>. MAYBE tnere !, only DC a streak OF
IL nailed out: Tom said. breaking in
on ms 1ather $ dismal thoughts.
You IL see Ill the mornin his
iather growled and Tom went back to
ped:, 49,.
.When rear woke 1t was with the
wlnd blowing IN upon her the morning
breeze fragrant with the sweetness OF
the flowers and the rlpening grain. ,
Inc mIsty doors had oil gone, and
The b%lockbirds were twittering in the