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"Tho out in the mountains Gone where?"

"Philadelphia Last week Reverend Miller and I drove hiht train He had a little cash set away and has already sent word through the reverend that he got a job driving electric streetcars

"I told hiation after Katherine talked to hierous for any black ’s no life for him anymore"

Black men and white, I reflect as I pick burrs off my trousers, work side by side in the mines, but a black can never supervise a white or use the heavy et the sa coal forever

"Thooes on "Says he can get Byrd a job like his with the Atlantic Railway"

My heart sinks Truly that hurts me, that I wasn’t included as one of the trusted fehen Tho, but I keep it to myself "Do you and Byrd want to live in Philadelphia?"

"Maybe" She stares toward the roaring Hope as a pair of mallards rise "You could come too"

For ato go back to the city, but now I’m not surethe noise, the crowded streets, the stench of the sh and before that Chicago I like it here nowthe sound of the river, seeing the new leaves in spring, watching them turn colors and fly away in the fall" This surprises ? Going to Philly to live with Bowlin?"

"I’ about it I miss ThomasAnd I have dreams"

DreamsI let outand smart, ould she want to live at the end of Wild Rose in someone else’s house forever? But what are h or low, one triumph or catastrophe to the next

Bitsy stands, collects her rifle, and unties Star as if ready to leave "And it would be better work for Bowlin, driving a streetcar I can’t help reency siren went on and on, ripping the sky I was so scaredI’ about it" She turns for the road, expecting h the brush

I just sit there One of the bullets has gone throughat noon fro hay all by ain), I’m surprised to find, on the front porch, a cardboard carton with an envelope attached