Enormous changes at the last minute; stories by Paley Grace

Author:Paley, Grace
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1974-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

gS • Grace Foley

on the child's arm. The cool answer was given: when NECESSARY. The third poster carried no words, only a na-palmed Vietnamese baby, seared, scarred, with twisted hands.

We were very quiet. Kitty put her head down into the dark skirt of her lap. I trembled. I said. Oh! Anna said to Phillip, "They'll only turn people against them," and turned against them herself at once.

'Tfou people will have to go," said Douglas, our neighborhood cop. He had actually arrived a few minutes earlier to tell Kitty to beg Jerry not to sell grass at this end of the park. But he was ready. "You just have to go," he said. "No parades in the park."

Kitty lifted her head and with sweet bossiness said, "Hey Doug, leave them alone. They're O.K."

Tonto said, "I know that girl, she goes to Greenwich House. You're in the fours," he told her.

Doug said, "Listen Tonto, there's a war on. You'll be a soldier too someday. I know you're no sissy like some kids around here. You'll fight for your country."

"Ha ha," said Mrs. Junius Finn, "that'll be the day. Oh, say, can you see?"

The paraders made a little meeting just outside our discussion. They had to decide what next. The four grownups held the tongues of the children's bells until that decision could be made. They were a group of that kind of person.

"What they're doing is treason," said Douglas. He had decided to explain and educate. "Signs on sticks aren't allowed. In case of riot. It's for their own protection too. They might turn against each other." He was afraid that no one would find the real perpetrator if that should happen.

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