Home Place by Wright Morris

Author:Wright Morris [Morris, Wright]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8032-8396-1
Publisher: UNP - Bison Books
Published: 2014-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

“I used to ride old Bess every day,” I said.

“Myyyy she was gentle,” said the old man, “she was as gentle and nice as the day is long.” Me wheeled over in the gutter, where the road was smoother, and we could talk. “Got an old one right now, just like her,” he said, “fine Roman nose, four pretty white feet. Pretty as a picture. Won’t do a thing but cat.”

“In the barn there was a buggy,” Peggy said. “Why didn’t we go in the buggy?”

The old man leaned out of the car to spit. He never could spit very well, for some reason, and it came back to streak the isinglass curtain. The curtain on the driver’s side was the coffee color of his moustache wings. “Mitch used to say Grace”—he wiped his mouth—“was the prettiest thing he ever seen. Up and down from a buggy, my she was a sight to see.” That was my mother. That was the way he referred to her. According to Mitch, for the old man, was according to Hoyle. Mitch was the first of the family, maybe a year or two older than Harry, and the old man seemed to think a good deal of him. “According to Mitch—” he went on, as if he had read my mind, “Grace Osborn was just about the finest woman that ever was.” Clara had never said either yes or no to that. She’d heard it a good many times, and I would say the finest thing about my mother were the things that Clara Muncy never said.

“Now I’m goin’ to stop here,” the old man said, and pulled up at the STOP sign on the main highway, “not because I think I should, but because it’s the law.” He looked at my kids, one at a time, then we leaped out on the highway, the horn tooting, and headed toward Lone Tree.

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