“Looky-here,
Bird's Eye, whilst you was fixin' that fawn's leg, you was a real
man. You know that? It's plumb foolish for you not to let more
folks in the Cove see a heap more of that Bird's-Eye. They
have the wrong idea 'bout you.”
The
man looked at her in genuine astonishment. “That must be woman
tease-talk. Are you a-joshin' me? Fixin' animals' legs ain't no
man's work.”
“Fixin'
onything is man's work,” came Opal's firm answer. “Tearin' down
or killin', that thar's easy. Any addlepated fool kin pull the
trigger of a rifle-gun or fling a rock. It's fixin' that's
hard, takes a heap more doin'.”
-From
Christy by Catherine Marshall, at the end of chapter
Twenty-nine
I reread that book recently. Sometimes I feel like Christy of the West Coast in the Sierras.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great one. (Like really, really great.) Where exactly are you in the Sierras?
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