Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter

Author:Angela Carter
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Fiction, Fairy Tales, General, Legends & Mythology, Folk Tales
ISBN: 9780349008219
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 1992-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

OLD FOSTER

(HILLBILLY: USA)

hey use to be an old man, he lived way over in the forest by hisself, and all he lived on was he caught women and boiled ’em in front of the fire and eat ’em. Now the way my mother told me, he’d go into the villages and tell ’em this and that and get ’em to come out and catch ’em and jest boil they breasts. That’s what she told me, and then I’ve heard hit that he jest eat ’em. Well, they was a beautiful stout woman, he liked ’em the best (he’d a been right atter me un your mother) so every day he’d come over to this woman’s house and he’d tell her to please come over to see his house. ‘Why, Mr Foster, I can’t find the way.’ ‘Yes, you can. I’ll take a spool of red silk thread out of my pocket and I’ll start windin’ hit on the bushes and it’ll carry ye straight to my house.’ So she promised him one day she’d come.

So she got her dinner over one day and she started. So she follered the red silk thread and went on over to his house. When she got there, there was a poor little old boy sittin’ over the fire a boilin’ meat. And he says, ‘Laws, Aunt’ – she was his aunt – ‘what er you doin’ here? Foster kills every woman that comes here. You leave here jest as quick as you can.’

She started to jump out the door and she saw Foster a comin’ with two young women, one under each arm. So she run back and says, ‘Jack, honey, what’ll I do, I see him a comin’?’ ‘Jump in that old closet under the stair and I’ll lock you in,’ says Jack.

So she jumped in and Jack locked her in. So Foster come in and he was jest talkin’ and a laughin’ with those two girls and tellin’ the most tales, and he was goin’ to taken ’em over to a corn shuckin’ next day. Foster says, ‘Come on in and have supper with me.’ So Jack put up some boiled meat and water. That’s all they had. As soon as the girls stepped in and seed the circumstance and seed their time had come their countenance fell. Foster says, ‘You better come in and eat, maybe the last chance you’ll ever have.’ Girls both jumped up and started to run. Foster jumps up and ketched ’em, and gets his tomihawk and starts upstairs with ’em. Stairs was shackly and rattly, and as they went up one of the girls retched her hand back and caught hold of a step and Foster jest tuck his tomihawk and hacked her hand off. It drapped into whar my mother was. She laid on in there until next day atter Foster went, then Jack let her out.

She jest bird worked over to where the corn shuckin’ was. When she got there Foster was there. She didn’t know how to git Foster destroyed.

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