As she grew older, she showed a strong interest in all living things about the farm. She followed after her mother when she went to feed the chickens, slop the pigs, and milk the cows. She watched her father hook up the mules8; and when he plowed9 trotted10 along behind him in the furrow11 for hours together. She was great friends with Minnie, the big Maltese cat, and gave an excited welcome to each of her frequent litters of kittens. Perhaps more than any other animal on the farm she loved old Bounce, the dog, a good-natured and intelligent mongrel, mostly shepherd, brindle of color and growing with age increasingly lazy of habit. She was jubilant when a hen that had stolen her nest would come proudly out from under the barn or behind the pigpen clucking to a dozen or so fluffy12 little yellow-legged chickens, all spotless and dainty. Once she came upon a turkey's nest in a weed-shaded corner of the rail fence and, stooping with breathless excitement, saw
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that the little turkeys had just that day come out of the shell. They peeped at her from under the old turkey hen, not with the bright, saucy13 looks of little chickens, but with shy, wild, frightened eyes, like timid little birds. Even better than the turkeys and chickens, Judith liked the little geese. They were so big and fluffy when they came out of the shell, and such a beautiful, soft green; and they waddled14 and bobbed their heads so quaintly15, as they moved in a little, compact band over the bluegrass that they loved to eat. They were prettier still when they sailed, like a fleet of little boats at anchor, in some quiet corner of the creek16, the sun flecking their green bodies with pale gold as it blinked at them through the boughs17 of the overhanging willow18 tree.
She was absorbed in all the small life that fluttered and darted19 and hopped20 and crawled about the farm. The robins21 and finches that sang and built their nests in the big hickory tree by the gate; the butterflies, white, yellow, and parti-colored, that fluttered among the weeds and grasses; the big dragonflies with gauzy wings iridescently22 green and purple in the sunlight, that darted back and forth23 over the brook24: these little creatures, with their sweet voices, their gay colors and shy, elusive25 ways, entered into Judith's life and became a part of it. The grass and the bare ground, too, were alive for Judith, alive with the life of beetles26, crickets, ants, and innumerable other worms and insects. The toads27 that hopped about in the evening were her friends; and when she happened upon a snake she did not scream and run as Lizzie May would have done, but stood leaning forward on tiptoe admiring its colors, the wonder and beauty of its pattern and the sinuous28 grace of its movement until it wiggled out of sight in the grass.
She loved fish, too: the long, slinky pickerel that live where the pond is full of reeds and water lilies, the whiskered catfish29 and the beautiful perch30, banded with light and dark green, as though they had taken their colors from the sun-flecked banks along which they lived. Better than these big pond fish, because they were smaller and nearer and so more intimately hers, she liked the little "minnies" that lived in her own creek.
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From time to time she had been lucky enough to secure a minnow, which she would bring home triumphantly31 in a salmon32 can. She would set the can down on the doorstep, fill it up with fresh water from the cistern33 and sprinkle the water lavishly34 with bread crumbs35 for the minnow's refreshment36. Then she would sit with the can in her lap and lovingly watch the little dark, sinuous body slipping about beneath the bread crumbs.
The next morning she would find the little fish that only yesterday had been so dark and graceful37 and lively, lying inert38 and white-bellied among the sodden39 bread crumbs at the top of the water.
Then the pitiless grip of self-accusing horror and remorse40 would tighten41 on Judith. It made her leaden-hearted to think that she had been the cause of the death of this happy little creature that had seemed to love its life so well. Anguished42 in spirit, she would make frantic43 efforts to revive the minnow by supplying him with fresh water and bread crumbs and restoring him to his living position in the water, valiantly44 opposing her eager endeavors and warm pity against the iron inexorableness of death. But all in vain! The fresh water and bread crumbs always failed to interest him; and as soon as the anxious fingers that held him back upward were removed, he would turn up his little white, pink-veined belly45 to the fresh morning sunshine that would never gladden him again. Sadly Judith would own her defeat at last and, sick at heart with a sorrow too deep and real for childish tears, she would bury her hapless victim in a tiny, flower-lined grave, resolved that she would never again be so cruel as to catch a minnow. But in a few days, with the easy forgetfulness of childhood, she would slip away to the creek, salmon can in hand; and the old rapture46 and the old agony would sway her too eager soul all over again.
It seemed to Judith at such times, as she would sit on the doorstep staring dismally47 into vacancy48, that not only in relation to minnows, but to everything else in life, she was foredoomed to failure—failure disastrous49 not only to herself but still more
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so to the objects that she tried to befriend and benefit. Mud turtles brought from the swampy50 land near the creek and kept in a soap box in the yard always died. Butterflies imprisoned51 in an old, rusty52 bird cage, though watched and tended ever so carefully, always died. Grasshoppers53 that she tried to domesticate54 by keeping them in a pasteboard box with holes punched in it, even though tempted55 with raisins56 filched57 from her mother's pantry and called by the most endearing of pet names, always died. Beautiful, fuzzy, amber-colored caterpillars58, treated in like manner, always died. The little girl, sitting meditatively59 chin on hand, wondered vaguely60 why all her efforts should be followed by such a curse of blight61 and disaster. One day she heard, coming nearer and nearer, the sound of sharp, shrill62 voices and harsh, staccato laughs which she recognized at once as those of boys. Peering through the tall weeds, she saw coming along the road the two Blackford boys, Jerry and Andy, who lived about half a mile farther along. They had with them a small, forlorn, white kitten, which, after the manner of boys, they were amusing themselves by torturing. Just as Judith looked, Andy gave its tail a sharp tweak; and the miserable63 little thing whined64 piteously and looked about in a feeble, watery-eyed fashion, for a way of escape. Then Jerry caught up the little creature by its limp tail and whirled it around and around in the air, shouting inarticulately, like the young savage65 that he was.
When Judith saw the hapless plight66 of the kitten, a spirit of uncontrollable horror and rage born of horror entered into her. The mother feeling, an instinct which rarely showed itself in her, would not let her see this little animal tortured. Her face blazed scarlet67, her eyes flashed with a wild glitter, her long arms and legs grew strong and tense. She dropped her basket, leapt the picket68 fence and rushed upon the boys like an avenging69 Fury, her knife in her hand.
"You let that cat alone! Give it up to me! How dare you hurt a poor little helpless cat? By gollies I'll cut you! I'll kill you! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!"
The "Oh's" that Lady Macbeth uttered as she walked in
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her sleep were not more full of tragic70 horror than were Judith's as she brandished71 her knife to right and left in a frenzy72 of tumultuous emotions. Her long black pigtails, tied at the ends with bits of red grocer's twine73, bobbed wildly in the air. Barefooted and bareheaded and wearing a faded and torn blue calico dress, she was yet in spirit a very queen of tragedy as she lunged with her kitchen knife and called down imprecations upon the heads of Jerry and Andy.
Her fury daunted74 the boys. They had had differences of opinion with Judith before and they knew how she-devilish she could be when angry. They had had experience of her biting, scratching, kicking, and hair-pulling as well as of the hard blows of her strong little clenched75 fists. While dodging76 one of the lunges of the knife, Jerry let go of the cat; and Judith instantly snatched it up and stood at bay, the knife poised77 in one hand, the cat in the other.
"Naow then, one of you jes dass come near here an' I'll run this knife right in yer guts78! See if I don't!"
Jerry and Andy showed some sense of the value of discretion79. They made no step forward, but stood where they were and bandied compliments.
"You wait till we git ye comin' home from school, ye little slut!" threatened Andy.
"Guess I'll wait a spell, too," retorted Judith, sticking out a viperish80 red tongue. "I'm not a-skairt of you ner ten more like ye. I can lick any kid in yer family; an' my father can lick yer father, too."
"Oh, can he so?" mocked Jerry. "Mebbe he'd better come over an' try!"
"He don't need to. He wouldn't dirt his hands to touch yer greasy81 ole dad. But he could if he had a mind to."
"I know sumpin 'bout3 you! Ah ha, I know sumpin 'bout you!" caroled Jerry derisively82.
Judith had begun to lose interest in the verbal encounter.
"Aw shet up yer dirty mouth!" she snapped disgustedly, as she crawled back into her own yard through a hole in the picket fence.
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The boys went on down the road walking backward, their fingers to their noses, calling after her in diminishing chorus.
"Cowardly kids! Cowardly kids! Cowardly kids!" returned Judith scornfully, until the enemy voices could no longer be heard.
When she got back to the house she set down her basket by the kitchen door, carried the kitten into the kitchen and got it a saucer of milk. Its eyes were bleared and abject83 in expression, its sharp little bones almost stuck through its dingy84 white fur; and its discouraged little tail, tangled85 with burrs, drooped86 pitifully.
Judith examined the frail87 joints88 of its legs and was immensely relieved to find that none of them were broken. Their intactness seemed to her a miracle; for they were so thin and small and delicate that it seemed as though the slightest blow or pressure would crush them. She shuddered89 as she felt these fragile joints; and through her whole body there surged a great ocean of tenderness and pity for this defenseless little creature. She experienced a vague, but overwhelming sensation of its pitiful helplessness against all the great, cruel powers of nature, which seemed to be conspiring90 against it. A clumsy foot, a slamming door, the fall of a flatiron from her mother's ironing board: these and a thousand such could cruelly mangle91 its frail body and even crush out its tiny spark of life. With a blank, painful, discouraged ache in her heart, Judith wondered vaguely why the whole world should be so rough and cruel and hazardous92 a place for kittens and minnows and all small, unbefriended things. She did not know that she was precociously93 experiencing the feeling of many a young mother who, with the birth of her helpless firstborn, feels in one overwhelming rush all the tragedy of weakness in a world where the weak must acquire strength or perish.
The very ugliness of the little thing endeared it to her; for it was a pitiable ugliness, an ugliness born of hunger and ill-treatment. Tenderly she stroked its mangy little head and vowed94 that she would take care of it and stand between it and the cruel world all the days of its life.
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In the morning as soon as she awoke her thoughts flew to the kitten. She scrambled95 into her clothes and ran out into the yard, glancing about the empty kitchen as she passed through. For a long time she searched in vain and was beginning to think that the kitten had wandered away when of a sudden down at the foot of the hill she stopped in amazement96 and horror. Here in the heavy clay land beside the creek was a little pool that she had hollowed out the day before and into which she had put four live minnows. The flowers that she had planted around it had all wilted97 and fallen over. Some were lying flat on the muddy ground, some trailing lifeless in the water. Their bright yellows and purples and pinks had all faded into a common drab. On the edge of the water sat the white kitten. And even as she gazed with horror-dilated eyes it fished up a live minnow with its paw and crunched98 it mercilessly between its small, strong jaws99. In a dazed, half-hearted way Judith looked down into the water of the pond and saw that there was now nothing there—nothing alive—only the pebbles100 and mosses101 and half dead water plants.
Silently she turned and ran away, far, far away from the unspeakable kitten and the dead flowers and the empty pool and all the hideous102 horror of it.
From that day she never again felt the same poignancy103 of distress104 at the sight of suffering and death among animals. As she grew more intimately into the life of the woods and the fields and the barnyard she learned to take for granted certain laws of nature which at first had seemed distressingly105 harsh and cruel. She became resigned to the knowledge that the big fishes eat the little ones, that the chickens devour106 the grasshoppers, that Bounce, the gentle and affectionate, would kill rabbits and groundhogs whenever he could get hold of them: that in all the bird and animal and insect world the strong prey108 continually upon the weak. It was hard at first to see Minnie's whole litter of kittens but one dropped into a bucket of water and drowned and to watch her father lead off to the butcher the calf109 that for two months she had been
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feeding and petting. But these things happened so often, and the law of the survival of the fittest was so firmly established a part of the life of the farm that she soon learned to accept it with equanimity110. She might have been slower in learning this lesson if she had been given to self-deception. But she could never lull111 her sensibilities with this so commonly used opiate. She insisted upon standing112 over the bucket in which the kittens were drowned and upon knowing exactly what was going to happen to the calf. Soon she discovered that however many little fishes were eaten there were always plenty more; that an endless number of birds and butterflies and grasshoppers sang and fluttered and jumped through the summer days regardless of the depredations113 of their enemies; that there were always more kittens and calves114 being born. Without putting the thought into words or even thinking it, but merely sensing it physically115, she knew that in the life of nature death and suffering are merely incidentals; that the message that nature gives to her children is "Live, grow, be happy, and obey my promptings." The birds and chickens and grasshoppers all heard it and Judith knew they heard it. Judith heard it too. As she trotted to school in the clear, sun-vibrant air of the early morning, or brought up the cows through the sweet-smelling twilight116, or picked blackberries on the edge of the sunny pasture, nature kept whispering these words in her ear. It is given to few civilized117 human beings to ever hear this message. Perhaps in that generation Bill Pippinger's girl was the only human being in the whole of Scott County who heard and heeded118 these words: "Live, grow, be happy, and obey my promptings."
For a number of reasons religion never became a part of Judith's life. The Pippingers were not a church-going family nor were many of their neighbors. The consolations119 of religion were sought more by the village people who had no morning and evening chores to do and were handy to the churches. A deep-seated, if rather vague respect remained, however, in the mental make-up of these country folk for the religion of their fathers. An ill-defined fear, a dim hope, and
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a few inhibitions remained of the once more vigorous religious life. Judith sensed these things as she grew into girlhood; but they could find no foothold in the healthy vigor120 of her spirit.
Once when she was ten years old, she went with the rest of the family to a camp revival121 meeting where the preaching evangelist described with lurid122 language and fear-compelling inflections the last judgment123 day and the tortures of an eternal damnation in a hell burning forever with fire and brimstone. The task of browbeating124 an ignorant audience was apparently125 one that the preacher enjoyed mightily126; for he went at it with tremendous vigor and zest127. At times his voice sank to an awe-inspiring whisper, then rose to a demoniac shriek128 as he sought to bully129 and terrify his hearers into a state of nerve collapse130. Judith listened with eyes that showed more and more of the whites. The lurid pictures were printed instantly on the sensitive plate of her keen imagination. She took the preacher seriously, literally131, which fortunately few in the audience appeared to do. She looked around at their stolid132, peaceful faces and felt somewhat reassured133. Perhaps it wasn't true after all.
On the way home she asked her father if what the preacher had said was true.
"Waal, I reckon it is an' it ain't," answered Bill, spitting over the side of the wagon134. "Mebbe Uncle Ezra Pettit is a-goin' to the hot place. An' I kinder hope he is—not wishin' 'im no bad luck. An' Sam Whitmarsh'll like enough pull up there too. Lord knows he's done enough dirty tricks to deserve to fry good, an' on both sides. An' Uncle Ezry'll be mad whichever place he goes, 'cause he'll have to leave his money an' his land behind. But anyhow me ner mine hain't a-goin' to no hot place, ner nobody else that tends their own business. Git up, Bob! Lord love them mules, they're a-comin' to be slower'n the seven year itch4."
Her father's unconcern greatly allayed135 Judith's apprehensions136; but the picture drawn137 by the evangelist was too fresh and vivid to be forgotten at once. That night Judith dreamed
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that the end of the world had come. Portentous138 curtains of black, like a hundred thunder storms in one, hung from the sky. Stabbing the blackness came one sharp arrow of crimson139 light, glowing, intense, and awe-inspiring. Slowly and dreadfully the arrow lengthened140, widened, gathered blinding light and burning heat. The judge of the world was coming in his majesty141 to sit upon the judgment seat. People rushed from their houses and tried to hide in haystacks, under piles of old lumber142 or in the rooted-out holes beneath hogpens. Judith herself, with a despairing realization143 that the worst had really happened and that the world would never again be peaceful and sunshiny, ran out into the dooryard. At that moment the air was split by a terrible blast from Gabriel's trumpet144. The blast woke Judith and turned out to be only her father passing the window and blowing his nose onto the ground between his thumb and forefinger145.
It was an immense relief to Judith to find that it was only a dream, that the sun still shone and the birds sang and her mother was frying corncakes for breakfast and Craw was chasing the big black hog107 out of the yard and everything was going to be the way it was before.
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hideous
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devour
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