I said to Lorna, “I thot it ben Eusa made the 1 Big 1.”
Lorna said, “I never said he dint.”
I said, “Wel you jus tol in this story it ben that man and woman done it plus they bilt the Power Ring and all.”
She said, “You hear diffrent things in all them way back storys but it dont make no diffrents. Mosly they aint strait storys any how. What they are is diffrent ways of telling what happent.”
I said, “Ben there a strait story past down amongst the tel women?”
She said, “There bint no tel women time back way back. Nor there aint never ben no strait story I ever heard. Bint no writing for 100s and 100s of years til it begun agen nor you wunt never get a strait story past down by mouf over that long. Onlyes writing I know of is the
I said, “That about the 1st knowing in the story. How they got it looking in the dogs eyes. Be that blip or jus a way of saying or what?”
She said, “Why you asking?”
I said, “Wel that old dog I kilt I lookit in its eyes dint I. Nor I never got no 1st knowing out of it did I.”
She said, “May be you got it only you dont know it yet.”
I said, “Have you got it?”
She said, “Every bodys got it its in every 1 of us only we cant get to it til it comes to us 1 way or a nother.”
I said, “Its come to you aint it.”
She said, “Yes its come to me nor there aint no use asking what it is becaws its what there aint no words for.”
Wel any way thats the story of why the dog wont show its eyes.
Back then in this time I ben writing of I never knowit any 1 ben dog kilt only a kid it wer Follery Digman he got dog et years back. It wer Ful of the Moon and he staggelt behynt a trade crowd coming back. Some times other times of mooning it lookit to me like the dogs ben near ready to come frendy only it never happent. Nor I never heard of no 1 tame a pup. Heard of some 1 got 1 1ce I dont know how they done it. They never tamit tho. Soons it got big a nuff it dug unner the fents and gone.
Theres dogs in the
We done the berning that nite on the bye bye hump. The moon wer cloudit over and a hy wind blowing. I put the 1st torch to the stack then Straiter Empy for the crowd then Reckman Bessup for Widders Dump then Lorna Elswint for las. Arnge flames upping in the dark and liting all the faces roun. Catching that time of that nite stoppt on all them faces. You cud smel the berning sharp on the air mixt with the meat smel from the divvy roof. Dogs begun to howl it wer coming and going on the wind. The fire blowing in the wind and the sparks whup off in to the dark and gone. Dark and gone. Befor the wording we sung
Straiter Empy said, “Thine hans for Brooder Walker.”
We all thinet hans then roun the fire and Straiter Empy wordit 1st. He said, “Brooder Walker. A good man and done good connexions. Done his bes for this crowd like his father done befor him. Like his son wil after him. Out of the dark he come and in to the dark he gone. In to the 1st knowing and the Master Chaynjis.”
Reckman Bessup wordit nex. He said, “Brooder Walker. He wer a connexion man the same as me. I never seen him doing no connexions tho Ive only seen him jobbing on the form and this day Ive crowdit back to fents with him with dead mans iron on me. He connectit shows for you. Connectit with a shovvel or a leaver poal for us. Put his han to what ever he done and took a good grip on it.”
It gone right roun the circel then every 1 saying a word or 2 even if it wernt nothing only “Bye bye Brooder.” I had las wording only I dint say nothing I kep my words for him inside me. Then we unthinet. The fire berning hot and hy and Lorna Elswint up front for the tel. Face all sharp and rinkelt in the fire lite and the shadders moving on it.
