"Is somebody hurt? Bandershanks, where're you at? Huldie, what's wrong?"
Huldie slacked up on beating Shoogie, but Shoogie didn't slack up on bawling. She got louder and louder!
"Miss, these chillens done stole my snuff!"
"Stole your snuff? I declare to my soul! Bandershanks, come here!"
"Yes'm. They both been dippin' hit up! See all on their faces? This Shoogie brat, she so black snuff don't show on her'n, but just look 'round that baby's mouth!" Huldie pointed at me and began spanking on Shoogie again.
Mama pulled me toward the garden fence, where she jerked up a Jimson weed!
"Mama! It's chocolate, Mama! Just chocolate!"
But Mama couldn't hear me for all of Shoogie's loud bellowing! She started stinging my legs to pieces!
"Mama! It ain't snuff!" I screamed louder. "It ain't! It ain't! Mama! Mama!"
She kept flailing my legs.