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Maybe we’ll see another one.” Roskus came with the milk buckets. He went on. Quentin wasn’t com­ing with us. He was sitting on the kitchen steps. We went down to Versh’s house. I liked to smell Versh’s house. There was a fire in it and T.P. squat­ting in his shirt tail in front of it, chunking it into a blaze.

Then I got up and T.P. dressed me and we went to the kitchen and ate. Dilsey was singing and I be­gan to cry and she stopped.

“Keep him away from the house, now.” Dilsey said.

“We cant go that way.” T. P. said.

We played in the branch.

“We cant go around yonder.” T. P. said. “Dont you know mammy say we cant.”

Dilsey was singing in the kitchen and I began to cry.

“Hush.” T. P. said. “Come on. Lets go down to the barn.

Roskus was milking at the barn. He was milking with one hand, and groaning. Some birds sat on the barn door and watched him. One of them came down and ate with the cows. I watched Roskus milk while T.P. was feeding Queenie and Prince. The calf was in the pig pen. It nuzzled at the wire, bawling.

“T.P.” Roskus said. T.P. said Sir, in the barn.

Fancy held her head over the door, because T.P.