House of Earth by Woody Guthrie

Author:Woody Guthrie
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

It was after several minutes of stillness in the room that Ella said, “You know it was certainly nice of Blanche to stay here with me these last few days.”

Tike had rolled a cigarette, spilled loose tobacco in the wrinkles of his pants, and turned to face the room and to lean his head back against her knee. She smelled his khaki pants and blue shirt filled with his sour sweat, mixed in with the smoke that he blew from his mouth as the cigarette hung down from his lips. She heard him blow smoke without moving the cigarette, and heard him say, “Yeah … Really sure ’nuff was. You’re a dern daggone fool, though, Elly, to let her leave you alla these four or five hours. Kid was to poke its head out right now, shucks, I wouldn’t know which a way to jump. Where did you say that she went?”

“Into Jericho to buy some things. She’ll be right back. It’s not more than nine miles by the new shortcut road. I look for her right now any minute. Of course it is getting dark, all right. And I would feel just a touch better if she would come. But, you know, Tike, she has just been the nicest thing that you ever did see.”

He shook his head and listened. “Yeahhh.”

“And besides, Mister, you could use a few more brains than you’ve got right now, yourself. You could even learn how to welcome a little newly come baby into the world your own self. Old Grandma and Grandpa told me they brought two of theirs in without the help of any doctor.”

“You’re nuts.”

“Why? Wouldn’t you like to be the first human to shake hands with this little fellow? Tell him howdy, give him a good friendly sendoff in the world?” She laughed. “I would really like to see you, Old Tike Hamlin, reaching and snatching and fretting and fuming and foaming and jumping around all over the place! Ha ha ha ha!”

“You’re a downright liar an’ th’ truth ain’t in you,” he shot back at her. “You’re lyin’ an’ you know you’re a-lyin’!”

“No sir. But that Blanche is really just about the sweetest and the nicest one woman that anybody anywhere would ever hope to see. Why, do you realize that she just won’t hardly let me turn a hand to lift a thing, to pull at anything, to heave nor to tug, nor to bend nor to stoop, nor to bounce around nor shake up and down nor to strain myself in any way, shape, form, or fashion? She is certainly fine. And she hasn’t left my sight now for ten days until just today. I think that she gets letters from a sweetie and she doesn’t want us nor any of her folks to know anything about it. And so she didn’t have him to send them here to the farm, but rented her a box of her own in Jericho. She thinks that the box will

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