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A TRIP TO CZARDIS
Mamma. — {Dully) Hit’s come, all right.
Jim. — Seems like I jest cain’t believe yet we’re goin’ . . .
Mamma. — {Cutting in) There ain’t time fur talk now, Jim. You best bestir yourself. And waken up Dan’l too.
Sound. — Receding footfalls on floor hoards.
Mamma. — {Voice more distant) Put on the clean things I washed out fur you so you’ll look decent and be a credit to your raisin’.
Sound. — Footfalls descending stairs; fade-out. Mourning doves call briefly.
Jim. — Wake up, Dan’l. Wake up!
Dan’l. — {Whimpering in his sleep) Leave me be. Make ’em leave me be. Jim! . . . Jim!
Jim. — {Patient, kind) Don’t be feared, Dan’l. Ain’t nobody abotherin’ you.
Dan’l. — Hit’s dark. I cain’t see, Jim.
Jim. — Ain’t e’er a soul here but me and you. See, I got my arm around you. Open up your eyes now.
Dan’l. — {Wakes, still frightened) Oh . . . oh, I were dreamin’.
Jim. — What dreamin’ were you havin’ ?
Dan’l. — Hit’s gone right out of my head. But it were fearful, Jim, fearful, what I dreamed.
Jim. — The day’s come, Dan’l.
Dan’l. — What, Jim?
Jim. — The day. Hit’s here right now. The day we been waitin’ fur to come. You’ll recollect it all in a minute.
Dan’l. — I recollect. Hit’s the day we’re goin’ in the wagon to see papa.
Jim. — We’re goin’ all the way this time, right on to Czardis, where papa is. I never see sech a place as Czardis. Papa takened me one time he were going to market. You were too little then, and he were feared you’d get tuckered. You started up whimperin’ jest as we drove off, and papa
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