10/24 And they had blue eyes, and yellow hair, and they were awful fighters." As she talked, Billy followed her solemnly, his eyes steadily turned on hers. "Did they live anywhere around here ?" She laughed. They were the first English, and you know the Americans came from the English. We're Saxons, you an' me, an' Mary, an' Bert, and all the Americans that are real Americans, you know, and not Dagoes and Japs and such." "My folks lived in America a long time," Billy said slowly, digesting the information she had given and relating himself to it. |