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Updated: June 9, 2025
For I constantly teased Aunt Millie to make her scream and cry. "Granma," I used to call out, on waking in the morning.... "Yes, Johnnie darling, what is it?" "Granma, yesterday ... in the woods back of Babson's barn, I killed three Indians, one after the other." A silence.... "Granma, don't you believe me?" "Yes, of course, I believe you."
I was silent ... amused ... interested ... then "well, Granma'll tell me all about it when she comes ... and I can judge for myself, and," I added whimsically, "I suppose if they love each other it ought to be all right." And we both laughed. When Granma heard I was West she couldn't reach Antonville fast enough. She was the same dear childlike woman, only incredibly older-looking.
Dat good little girl, Vilet, is de oldes' granchile, an' she fulfils a great law in helpin' her granma. Den it's accordin' to the gospel, for a loving an' self-denyin' spirit has been shown. Mr. Watson has obeyed de great law of matrimony. He has married into dis fam'ly, an' he pulls with it an' for it instead ob against it as we see too of'en. De Lawd's blessin' will rest on dis fam'ly."
After she had kissed and kissed me, stroked and stroked my head and face in speechless love, I looked at her intently and lied to please her: "Why, Granma, you don't look a day older." "But I am, Johnnie, I am. I've been working hard since you left." Later I learned that nothing could be done with her, she was so obstinate.
It's all that granma of his that spoils him; and I wish she'd never come nigh the place! When Master Teddy doesn't see her he's as good as gold, that he is, the little man!"
For Millie had waked up in the night and had seen the old lady come into her room, reach under the bed, take the pot forth, use it, and glide silently upstairs to her room again. Millie spoke to the figure and received no answer. Then, frightened, she knew she had seen a "token" of Granma Wandon's approaching death.
Her corncob pipe it was as rank a thing as ditch digger ever poisoned the clean air with. Granma Wandon was as spry as a yearling calf. She taught me how to drown out groundhogs and chipmunks from their holes. She went fishing with me and taught me to spit on the bait for luck, or rub a certain root on the hook, which she said made the fish bite better.
But granma wasent afraid to stay alone and she knew how to bake the bread so she made her ma go and her Aunt Hannah took off the handsome gold locket and chain she was waring round her neck and hung it on granmas and told her she could ware it all day. Granma was awful pleased for she had never had any jewelry.
She knew she was going, said so calmly and happily. She made Millie and Granma Gregory promise they'd be good to me. I wept and wept. I kissed her leathery, leaf-like hand with utter devotion ... she could hardly lift it. Almost of itself it sought my face and flickered there for a moment. She seemed to be listening to something far off. "Can't you hear it, Maggie?" she asked her daughter.
We look everywhere in de hay-top, in de cotton gin-house, out on de prairie everywhere. Den I saw Miss May dat's yer granma, turn white-like, an' she say, 'Oh Delphy, oh James' dat's yer grandpa 'de ole well in de field! de ole well in de field! "Over in de bayou-field it done full up now, ole Mas' had a well dug to water de hosses out in. It war kivered up wid some bodes.
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