That much
of what they said is true, and the rest is lies. First off
they thought it was a nigger stealing Uncle Silas's corn
-- you notice it makes them look silly, now, to find out
somebody overheard them say that. That's because
they found out by and by who it was that was doing
the lugging, and THEY know best why they swore here
that they took it for Uncle Silas by the gait -- which it
WASN'T, and they knowed it when they swore to that lie.
"A man out in the moonlight DID see a murdered
person put under ground in the tobacker field -- but it
wasn't Uncle Silas that done the burying. He was in
his bed at that very time.
"Now, then, before I go on, I want to ask you if
you've ever noticed this: that people, when they're
thinking deep, or when they're worried, are most always
doing something with their hands, and they don't know
it, and don't notice what it is their hands are doing.
some stroke their chins; some stroke their noses; some
stroke up UNDER their chin with their hand; some twirl
a chain, some fumble a button, then there's some that
draws a figure or a letter with their finger on their
cheek, or under their chin or on their under lip. That's
MY way. When I'm restless, or worried, or thinking
hard, I draw capital V's on my cheek or on my under
lip or under my chin, and never anything BUT capital
V's -- and half the time I don't notice it and don't
know I'm doing it.
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