LITCS 111
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Spring 2016
(308)Boys,Ratliff said,Eck knows all about them horses. [...][...]I'd just as soon buy a tiger or a rattlesnake. And if Flem Snopes offered me either one of them, I would be afraid to touch it for fear it would turn out to be a painted dog or a piece of garden hose when I went up to take possession of it. [...][...] the mockingbird's idiot reiteration pulsed and purled.
(335)Get out of here, you son of a bitch,she said.
likely any time now Flem Snopes will get back from wherever he has been since the auction, which of course is to town naturally to see about his cousin that's got into a little legal trouble, and so get that five dollars. [...](347–48)[...][...] She came among them and stood, facing Snopes but not looking at anyone, her hands rolled into her apron.Do you reckon he will give it back to me?Mrs Armstid says. [...]
He sat behind the table and looked at them—at the gray woman in the gray sunbonnet and dress, [...] something very like terror.(357–58)
(360)Yes, sir. He said that Texas man taken it away with him when he left. [...][...]I would know them five dollars. I earned them myself, weaving at night after Henry and the chaps was asleep. [...] if I was to see it again.
If farewell was said, that was it, the halted wagons along the road creaking into motion again though Freeman and Tull and the other four men merely turned, relaxed again, their backs against the picket fence now, their faces identically grave, a little veiled and perhaps even sober, [...] the old road which until two weeks ago had been marked only by the hooves of Varner's fat white horse for more than twenty years.(402–03)