17/39 It crackled and snapped in the wind like a loose mainsail. "How'm I goin' to see to steer with that smackin' me between the eyes every other second ?" "Hey? Eva, my husband's niece, lives right acrost the road from him. Many's the time I've set on their piazza and seen him come out and go to the City Hall." "Keep it out of my face, I tell you! Reef it! Furl it, you--you woman! I wish to thunder the piazza had caved in on you! I never see such an old fool in my born days. TAKE IT AWAY!" Mrs.Beasley removed the paper, but only to substitute another. |