A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me

Her curly red hair loose from its combs hangin' down her back and her freckled skin bare, and a big ole nigger buck was doin' things to her! He'd always known that Hootch Carter raped and killed Becky Nell, never had reason to doubt it.

A last cricket scratched mournfully at its rebab.

Vast chain of being! which from God began.