Word: allusion
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...nothing at all unusual were going on. "I think he's dead," one of them says at last. "Dig it deep," Boss Ford replies, "so's the kyoats doan git 'im." And at the graveside he says unemotionally, "He was a good man with cattle. Allus did the best he knew how." And they throw on the dirt...
...tame hen that . . . could not possibly fly." But every few stories Bates varies his tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle Silas tells the story of a landlady with a passion for making puddings. One day, chance dropped her in his lap, and "arter that I wur never in want for the nicest bit o' pudden in the world...
...Allus kep' inside...
...throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started strippin' tobakker when I was eight, I reckon. Summers I chopped out corn and wormed and suckered tobakker. I reckon I allus wuz a show-off." Joy May's schooling lasted two weeks...
...talks little ("Speechmaking is no good, only gets you in trouble; I allus left that to John"), but he has a lot to think about. Before the great fire in 1871, he had a newsstand at Madison and Dearborn. Soon he had enough money to open a saloon near the Business Man's Exchange, south of Van Buren street-it had "the longest bar in the world." For a nickel The Hink sold schooners as big as buckets to bums, roustabouts, prostitutes. They could always put the bite on him for two bits; he let the bums sleep...