Word: movin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 the air so dang full o' haze that it looks like a lot o' spiders has been stringin...
...hellish name, if you ask me. Anyway, the "Hole" is populated with a specimen of every fish found in the surrounding waters from turtles to octopi. "Old Joe," the keeper, secretly told me, as he told every other tourist that ever visited the place, "Annette Kellerman had some movin' pitchers tooken as she sat on that 'er ledge throwing bread crums to the fishes, she did!" But she didn't dive or swim-oh no-not into that mess! Authority: "Old Joe." THOMAS D. RICE...