BOOK FIRST — GOLDEN YEARS
I. — “DE HINE FOOT ER A HE FRAWG”
Toward the close of an early summer afternoon, a little girl came running along the turnpike to where a boy stood wriggling his feet in the dust.
“Old Aunt Ailsey's done come back,” she panted, “an' she's conjured the tails off Sambo's sheep. I saw 'em hanging on her door!”