“Them at the Ram they wer afeart that head wunt res they dint know what they mytve brung down on ther selfs they dint know what myt be coming nex. They wisht theyd done like Eusa tol them only it wer too late for that becaws Eusa wer dead. They cudnt show Eusa for a lessing and a lerning like he tol them so they begun to make the figger of him then. Begun to make the Eusa figger. They made it littl so they cud work it on ther han they made a fit up so they cud carry the woal show on ther back. Trying to do like Eusa tol them which they wer going to show him. Show the idear of him any how. Thats when they stoppit killing off all the Eusa folk they startit keaping some of us in the dead towns. For a lessing and a lerning is what they say. Nor the Ram musnt want no 1 to have that lessing and lerning only ther selfs becaws they ben keaping us hid long a nuff aint they. The Eusa show men they come roun some times they do the juicy with the Eusa women which the Ram dont allow that only the hevvys keap it dark becaws they do it the same. The Ram dont want no other seed to mix with ours they dont want to straiten the crookit they want us kep jus like we are. They dont want the knowing sparsit out and scattert it dont make no odds tho you cant get a babby on a Eusa woman only with the Eusa seed I knowit my father right a nuff. When his time come to help the qwirys I bint no moren 3 monce old nor dint know nothing but the marks of it come out on me when they hung him up by his hans tyd behynt him. I can feal him in me when its moving I can feal him in me when its stil.”
I said, “When whats moving and stil?”
He said, “What ever there is. I aint going to mouf over it you go somers else and do your moufing oansome if you have to keap on doing it.”
He gone qwyet for a wyl then. Peopl with eyes you can see them move back from the front of ther eyes when they dont have no mor to say. This kid tho being he dint have no eyes in his face you cudnt see nothing when he movit back he jus dispeart. There come out of him a sylents with a roaring in it like when you put your ear to a sea shel.
The black dog wer sitting qwyet with his yeller eyes on the kid his 2 nexters wer on look out. I closd my eyes and wunnert if Iwd know that dog wer black if I cudnt see him. Becaws I sust the kid knowit the dog wer black. Looking at that black leaders eyes they myndit me of gulls eyes. Eyes so fearce they cudnt even be sorry for the naminal they wer in. Like a gull I seen 1 time with a broakin wing and Dad kilt it. Them yeller eyes staret scareless to the las. They jus happent to be in the gull but they dint care nothing for it.
I said to the Ardship, “Trubba not I have to keap asking becaws theres things I nead to know.”
He said, “No Trubba.”
I said, “Whyd they hang him up by his hans tyd behynt him?”
He said, “Dyou not lissen or what? Im wording it all out for you til my joars ake nor you wont take it in. I tol you dint I its the easy asking 1st then its helping the qwirys then its head on a poal and whats it all about I tol you that as wel its the knowing what the Ardship knows. Him and the Eusa folk. Which thats the knowing of what Eusa done.”
I said, “Every 1 knows that.”
He said, “I mean the knowing of how to do it.”
I said, “You mean the 1 Big 1 and the Master Chaynjis and that?”
He said, “Thats it.”
I said, “Dont tel me you know the Nos. of it.”
He said, “I dont know them here but Iwl know them in the senter when we gether.”
I said, “The senters where you come from tho innit. How come you never got the knowing befor this?”
He said, “I have got it befor this and manys the time tho Ive never tol Goodparley of it. But its only there when we gether.”
I said, “Whynt you write it down?”
He said, “Even if any of us cud write I wunt have that. The 1 Big 1 and the Master Chaynjis aint some thing you littl in to writing.”
I said, “Cant you keep it in memberment?”
He said, “It goes.”
I said, “Cant you work it wylst you know it? Work it on Goodparley and them?”
He said, “There aint nothing I can do with it. I dont know what it means nor nothing. Why dyou think they keap doing the woal thing over every 12 years. Becaws Goodparley and them they dont know how to do nothing with it no moren I do. They jus keap hoaping some time some Goodparley wil ask the right asking and some Ardship wil say a anser whatwl break them thru the barren year. He ben doing the easy askings ever so gennl slow and careful. I dont know what its like to have eyes but I can feal when peopl look at me. I cud feal his eyes like trying to dril in to my skul and hewd say ever so sof, ‘Wel here we are in the cruciboal and waiting for that radiant lite hey?’ Or hewd say, ‘Salt and saver. Think on that hey? Whats that salt for? Salt 4? Salt No. 4?’ Hewd go on and on like that hewd say to me, ‘You myt jus only be the leas littl lef over part of it but the woal is in the part you know. The woal is in the part.’ Iwd like to work the woal of it on him Iwl tel you that.”
