Bringing Ezra Back
“Every minute we spent there was an agony to me. While Beckwith peddled his wares, the townsfolk talked about how the show had packed up and left just the day before for Milltown, after staying for two nights’ worth of performances.
They marveled at how skinny the human skeleton feller was, and how teeny Little Miss Mary was, and how big the Amazing Amelia was for her age. But what they talked about most was “that wretched soul,” the White Injun who had no tongue. One man said it showed what sav...ages Injuns were.
Beckwith and I moved on, and I had lots of time to think as we made our way eastward. I thought about Weasel and how he was as close to pure evil as a man could be, and more savage than any Indian I’d ever heard of.
Orrin Beckwith was a puzzle. He talked about a man being either a wolf or a sheep, but I didn’t think it was that simple when it came to most folks. Why, Beckwith himself had a way of being a wolf one minute and a sheep the next. Besides, even wolf mothers suckled their young, and sheep sometimes trampled one another to death when they got to running scared.MoreLess
They marveled at how skinny the human skeleton feller was, and how teeny Little Miss Mary was, and how big the Amazing Amelia was for her age. But what they talked about most was “that wretched soul,” the White Injun who had no tongue. One man said it showed what sav...ages Injuns were.
Beckwith and I moved on, and I had lots of time to think as we made our way eastward. I thought about Weasel and how he was as close to pure evil as a man could be, and more savage than any Indian I’d ever heard of.
Orrin Beckwith was a puzzle. He talked about a man being either a wolf or a sheep, but I didn’t think it was that simple when it came to most folks. Why, Beckwith himself had a way of being a wolf one minute and a sheep the next. Besides, even wolf mothers suckled their young, and sheep sometimes trampled one another to death when they got to running scared.MoreLess
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