A Long Day in November by Gaines Ernest J
Author:Gaines, Ernest J. [Gaines, Ernest J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical
ISBN: 9781939601094
Goodreads: 18267737
Publisher: Lizzie Skurnick Books
Published: 1971-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
âI ainât goân catch cold,â I say. âWe got a fire. Iâm warm.â
âAmy, please come home,â Daddy says. âPlease, honey. I forgive you. I forgive Mama. I forgive everybody. Just come home.â
I look at Mama and Reverend Simmons talking on the gallery. The others ainât talking; they just standing there looking out in the road at me and Daddy. Reverend Simmons comes out the yard and over to the fire. Daddy comes to the fire where me and Reverend Simmons is. He looks at Reverend Simmons but Reverend Simmons wonât look back at him.
âWell, Reverend?â Daddy says.
âShe say she tired of you and that car,â Reverend Simmons says.
Daddy falls down on the ground and cries.
âA man just canât live by himself in this cold, cruel world,â he says. âHe got to have a woman to stand by him. He just canât make it by himself. God, help me.â
âBe strong, man,â Reverend Simmons says.
âI canât be strong with my wife in there and me out here,â Daddy says. âI need my wife.â
âWell, you goân have to straighten that out the best way you can,â Reverend Simmons says. âAnd I talked to Sister Rachel. She said she didnât shoot to hurt you. She just shot to kind of scare you away.â
âShe didnât shoot to hurt me?â Daddy says. âAnd I reckon them things was jelly beans I heard zooming three inches over my head?â
âShe said she didnât shoot to hurt you,â Reverend Simmons says. He holds his hands over the fire. âThis fireâs good, but I got to get back up the quarter. Got to get my wood for tonight. Iâll see you people later. And I hope everything comes out all right.â
âReverend, you sure you canât do nothing?â Daddy asks.
âI tried, son,â Reverend Simmons says. âNow weâll leave it in Godâs hand.â
âBut I want my wife back now,â Daddy says. âGod take so long toââ
âMr. Howard, thatâs blasphemous,â Reverend Simmons says.
âI donât want blaspheme Him,â Daddy says. âBut Iâm in a mess. Iâm in a big mess. I want my wife.â
âIâd suggest you kneel down sometime,â Reverend Simmons says. âThat always helps in a family.â
Reverend Simmons looks at me like heâs feeling sorry for me, then he goes on back up the quarter. I can see his coattail hitting him round the knees.
âYou coming in this yard, Sonny?â Mama calls.
âIâm with Daddy,â I say.
Mama goes back in the house, and Granâmon and them follow her.
âWhen you want one of them preachers to do something for you, they canât do a doggone thing,â Daddy says. âNothing but stand up in that church-house and preach âbout Heaven. I hate to go to that old hoo-doo woman, but I reckon there ainât nothing else I can do. You want go back there with me, Sonny?â
âUh-huh.â
âCome on,â Daddy says.
Daddy takes my hand and me and him leave the fire. When I get âway down the quarter, I look back and see the fire still burning. We cross the railroad tracks and I can see the people cutting cane.
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