Word: clint
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Clint Morgan was a "woods colt" -"what you-uns call a bastard, only our way of sayin' it is more decent. More natural-like, too; kind of wild an' bred in the hills an' the devil be damned, somethin' that-a-way." Clint's girl was Tillie Starbuck; he was aiming to marry her and everybody knew it and kept out of his way, till Ed Prather came along. When Clint found Prather sneaking off from the fish-fry to talk to Tillie, the trouble started. Prather got away that time, but Clint went...
Still his friends helped him, but now there was a posse after him. Clint headed into the back hills and began to wonder if he would ever get away. When his adoring cousin Nance found his hideout, bringing him supplies and more shotgun shells, he was mighty grateful, but when she spent the night with him he knew there was no help for him now. Cornered with Nance in the old cave where his uncle's still had been, Clint made a last stand, had the supreme satisfaction of killing Ed Prather before they...
...whole story, not simply the dialog, is told in hillbilly tongue; the cumulative effect is to make The Woods Colt a prose folksong. Just before the shot that ends his story Clint takes a last look at the woods where his parents got him: "They're mighty purty right this minute, they shore are. The leaves is all red an' yaller, an' they're a-movin' gentle-like, back an' forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with...