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Then the long September cry rang from the thousand unseen locusts, urgent at the open windows of the train. Doolittle, go out and pick some specially fine goldenrod there-for whom, she could not know. Once the Dog stopped in the open fields and Laura saw the engineer, Mr.
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Her ticket to Fairchilds was stuck up in her Madge Evans straw hat, in imitation of the drummer across the aisle. She sat leaning at the window, the light and the sooty air trying to make her close her eyes. Laura had the seat facing the stove, but of course no fire was burning in it now. Terry Black, the conductor, who had promised her father to watch out for her. The Dog was almost sure to reach Fairchilds before the lamp would be lighted by Mr. Overhead a black lamp in which a circle of flowers had been cut out swung round and round on a chain as the car rocked from side to side, sending down dainty drifts of kerosene smell. The yellow butterflies flew in at any window, out at any other, and outdoors one of them could keep up with the train, which then seemed to be racing with a butterfly. A breeze blew through, hot and then cool, fragrant of the woods and yellow flowers and of the train. In the passenger car every window was propped open with a stick of kindling wood. Of these facts the one most persistent in Laura's mind was the most intimate one: that her age was nine. Her cousin Dabney Fairchild, who was seventeen, was going to be married, but Laura could not be in the wedding for the reason that her mother was dead. Her father had come as far as Yazoo City with her and put her on the Dog. When she got there, "Poor Laura little motherless girl," they would all run out and say, for her mother had died in the winter and they had not seen Laura since the funeral. She was going up from Jackson to visit her mother's people, the Fairchilds, at their plantation named Shellmound, at Fairchilds, Mississippi. Laura McRaven, who was nine years old, was on her first journey alone. The day was the 10th of September, 1923-afternoon. The nickname of the train was the Yellow Dog. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The following address: Permissions Department, Requests for permission to make copies of Or any information storage and retrieval system, Or transmitted in any form or by any means,Įlectronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, No part of this publication may be reproduced
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