Darl said.
"Going to move the wagon," Jewel said over his shoulder.
"Dont be a fool," I said.
"I never meant nothing.
You couldn't help it."
And Darl hung back too but nothing woulddn't suit Jewel.
"Shut your goddamn mouth," he says.
"It's got to be somewhere," Darl said.
"We’ll take out soon as pa gets back."
"You wont help me?"
Jewel says, them white eyes of hisn kind of blaring and his face shaking like he had a aguer.
"No," Darl said.
"I wont.
Wait till pa gets back."
So I stood in the door and watched him push and pull at that wagon.
It was on a downhill, and once I thought he was fixing to beat out the back end of the shed.
Then, the dinner bell rung.
I called him, but he didn't look around.
"Come on to dinner," I said.
'Tell that boy."
But he didn't answer, so I went on to dinner.
The gal went down to get that boy, but she come back without him.
About half through dinner we heard him yelling again, running that buzzard out.
“It's a outrage," Lula said; "a outrage."
"He's doing the best he can," I said.
"A fellow dont trade with Snopes in thirty minutes.
They'll set in die shade all afternoon to dicker."
"Do?" she says.
"Do?
He's done too much, already."
And I reckon he had.
Trouble is, his quitting was Just about to start our doing.
He couldn't buy no team from nobody, let alone Snopes, withouten he had something to mortgage he didn't know would mortgage yet.
And so when I went back to the field I looked at my mules and same as told them goodbye for a spell And when I come back that evening and the sun shining all day on that shed, I wasn't so sho I would regret it.
He come riding up just as I went out to the porch, where they all was.
He looked kind of funny: kind of more hang-dog than common, and kind of proud too.
Like he had done something he thought was cute but wasn't so sho now how other folks would take it.
"I got a team," he said.
"You bought a team from Snopes?" I said.
"I reckon Snopes aint the only man in this country that can drive a trade," he said.
"Sho," I said.
He was looking at Jewel, with that funny look, but Jewel had done got down from the porch and was going toward the horse.
To see what Anse had done to it, I reckon.
"Jewel," Anse says.
Jewel looked back.
"Come here," Anse says.
Jewel come back a little and stopped again,
"What you want?" he said.
"So you got a team from Snopes," I said.
"He’ll send them over tonight, I reckon?