Word: kim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they buried Uncle Kim the coffin was covered with a flag. "I had been to one or two funerals before, but I had never seen one like this funeral. . . . The grass felt soft and warm to my bare feet and the little puddles of sand were hot enough to burn my toes. . . . 'Trouble, trouble, trouble,' Grandpa whispered. . . . 'Man born of woman is full of trouble.'. . . The wind lifted Grandpa's white corn-silk beard up and down.... He was bent like an old tree weighted down with branches. . . . Uncle Mott's face...
...Uncle Kim's first cousins lifted the big black coffin to their shoulders. "My kinfolks . . . walked in the procession behind with their arms around their girls' backs. ... It was the greatest bit of excitement that I had ever seen, just to walk in the great procession and hear the people laugh and talk. . . . Before we had gone far up on the mountain, Brother Baggs . . . said: 'Brothers and sisters, let us sing Beulah Land!' If you don't think it's hard to climb a mountain and sing, you try it one of these days...
...They lifted the coffin over the grave hole while Grandpa pulled the flag from over the coffin. They lowered Uncle Kim down into the mountain earth to the bottom of his shallow grave. . . . Now the great procession of people moved down the mountain faster than they had climbed...
...Life & High Living. The main story of Taps for Private Tussie is about the surviving Tussies (known as the Relief Tussies to distinguish them from the Tussies who remained Republican) in their swift squandering of Uncle Kim's $10,000 insurance. It is thus a Tobacco Road of the hill people, more shocking because it deals with the death of a soldier, painful and raucous in many of its details of low life among the people for whom he died, but enlivened all the way through by Jesse Stuart's magnificent use of his native idiom...
...hills it is just like the India of the past. War is far away. Of all places in India, the hill stations are the most British. Simla, with its gingerbready shops, its dingy hotels and antiquated houses, is strangely Victorian. Time seems to have stood still since Kim contemplated the twinkling lights of Jakko, and the Phantom Ricksha made its ghostly rounds...