"Dont be a fraid cat.
Come on."
They came on in the twilight.
I wasn't crying, and I held to the gate.
They came slow.
"I'm scared."
"He wont hurt you.
I pass here every day.
He just runs along the fence."
They came on.
I opened the gate and they stopped, turning.
I was trying to say, and I caught her, trying to say, and she screamed and I was trying to say and trying arid the bright shapes began to stop and I tried to get out.
I tried to get it off of my face, but the bright shapes were going again.
They were going up the hill to where it fell away and I tried to cry.
But when I breathed in, I couldn't breathe out again to cry, and I tried to keep from falling off the hill and I fell off the hill into the bright, whirling shapes.
Here, looney, Luster said.
Here come some.
Hush your slobbering and moaning, now.
They came to the flag.
He took it out and they hit, then he put the flag back.
"Mister." Luster said.
He looked around.
"What." he said.
"Want to buy a golf ball." Luster said.
"Let's see it." he said.
He came to the fence and Luster reached the ball through.
"Where'd you get it." he said.
"Found it." Luster said.
"I know that." he said. "Where.
In somebody's golf bag."
"I found it laying over here in the yard." Luster said. "I'll take a quarter for it."
"What makes you think it's yours." he said.
"I found it." Luster said.
"Then find yourself another one." he said.
He put it in his pocket and went away.
"I got to go to that show tonight." Luster said.
"That so. " he said.
He went to the table. "Fore caddie." he said.
He hit.
"I'll declare." Luster said. "You fusses when you dont see them and you fusses when you does.
Why cant you hush.
Dont you reckon folks gets tired of listening to you all the time.
Here. You dropped your jimson weed."
He picked it up and gave it back to me. "You needs a new one. You bout wore that one out." We stood at the fence and watched them.
"That white man hard to get along with." Luster said. "You see him take my ball." They went on.
We went on along the fence.
We came to the garden and we couldn't go any further.
I held to the fence and looked through the flower spaces.
They went away.
"Now you aint got nothing to moan about." Luster said. "Hush up.