How can buzzards get in where Damuddy is.
Father wouldn't let them.
Would you let a buzzard undress you.
Hush up, now."
Jason hushed.
"Frony said it was a funeral." he said.
"Well it's not." Caddy said. "It's a party.
Frony dont know anything about it.
He wants your lightning bugs, T.P. Let him hold it a while."
T.P. gave me the bottle of lightning bugs.
"I bet if we go around to the parlor window we can see something." Caddy said. "Then you'll believe me."
"I already knows." Frony said. "I dont need to see.
"You better hush your mouth, Frony." Versh said. "Mammy going whip you."
"What is it." Caddy said.
"I knows what I knows." Frony said.
"Come on." Caddy said. "Let's go around to the front."
We started to go.
"T P. wants his lightning bugs." Frony said.
"Let him hold it a while longer, T.P." Caddy said. "We'll bring it back."
"You all never caught them." Frony said.
"If I say you and T.P. can come too, will you let him hold it." Caddy said.
"Aint nobody said me and T.P. got to mind you." Frony said.
"If I say you dont have to, will you let him hold it." Caddy said.
"All right." Frony said. "Let him hold it, T.P.
We going to watch them moaning."
"They aint moaning." Caddy said. "I tell you it's a party.
Are they moaning, Versh."
"We aint going to know what they doing, standing here." Versh said.
"Come on." Caddy said. "Frony and T.P. dont have to mind me.
But the rest of us do.
You better carry him, Versh.
It's getting dark."
Versh took me up and we went on around the kitchen.
When we looked around the corner we could see the lights coming up the drive.
T.P. went back to the cellar door and opened it.
You know what's down there, T.P. said.
Soda water.
I seen Mr Jason come up with both hands full of them.
Wait here a minute.
T.P. went and looked in the kitchen door.
Dilsey said, What are you peeping in here for.
Where's Benjy.
He out here, T.P. said.
Go on and watch him, Dilsey said.
Keep him out the house now.
Yessum, T.P. said.
Is they started yet.
You go on and keep that boy out of sight, Dilsey said.
I got all I can tend to.
A snake crawled out from under the house.