The Spyglass Tree by Albert Murray

Author:Albert Murray [Murray, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82863-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

But the next kick had not come and that was when he had suddenly realized how much danger he was really in. That’s the part that really scared me and I was hauling out of there and out here before I knew it, gun or no gun, because I could hear him just standing there huffing and puffing like that, and I knew if he fainted it was going to be me if he come to saying I did it and if he didn’t come to, I didn’t have no chance at all. White folks. White folks. White folks. But now I got to get there and tell Gile.

And black ones, too. Yeah, them too. Goddamn right, them too. Because ain’t no use of them saying that because that don’t make me that, just because I didn’t do that. They can call me anything they want to, but anybody say I’m that don’t know what they talking about. That’s all right with me because goddamn the luck I know they going to say it anyhow, because all I want to do now is get there and tell Gile. They can say anything they goddamn want to.

he came on and on and on pulling against the pain and pumping against the stiffness and the swelling and then he had his second wind and his second chance. But he still couldn’t really believe it was happening to him.

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