When the plants were about three feet high, Jerry and Judith went through the rows "topping" them. With the thumb and forefinger6 they pinched off the central bud which, if allowed to grow, would shoot up and develop into flower and seed. This made the plants shorter, broader, and stockier and sent all the life into the great, succulent leaves. When Jerry and Judith worked at this task, their hands became covered with the thick, sticky, yellow juice of the plants. It took several changes of water to wash away this rank, poisonous sap; and the remaining stains were slow in wearing off.
The tobacco worms, too, were things that had to be contended with. All other plant pests leave tobacco alone, preferring more wholesome7 pasture. But there is one worm especially created to feast upon the tobacco plant. To this creature the deadly juice of the leaves means health and plenty. It resembles a tomato worm, but it is larger, longer, greener, and more many-legged. If it is allowed to live, its
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depredations8 are tremendous. Every week or so Jerry and Judith went through the tobacco plants with an old tin can in one hand and a stick in the other and knocked these offending vermin into the cans. When the rounds were completed they took the cans home and burned their contents in the cookstove.
It was not enough to cultivate the tobacco with the plow9. It had to be hoed, too. To make its best growth each plant required individual attention. They chopped the ground about the plants with great hoes made especially for heavy work. The hard clay, baked flinty by the hot sunshine, resisted the hoes with all its might. It always seemed to Judith that her row would never come to an end. And when, after slow and toilsome progress, she at last reached the end, there were innumerable more rows waiting to be done. She was forced to admit that Jerry was her superior in the tobacco field. He could hoe three rows while she was doing one; and at evening, though tired, he was by no means at the end of his strength. It was very hot in the southward sloping field. The sun beat down mercilessly and the plants exhaled11 a heavy, sickening odor. She could feel the sweat standing12 out on her face, and rolling down her legs. It tickled13 and irritated her skin, and now and then she stopped to scratch viciously. Sometimes the acrid15 streams poured into her eyes and for the moment blinded her. When a breeze sprang up and swept across the tobacco field, its touch on her wet body made her feel almost cold. After it had died away the heavy quiet fell like a great, stifling16 blanket over the earth and it seemed twice as hot as before. Still she and Jerry plodded17 on with the patient persistence18 of those born and reared to a life of toil10.
Not much visiting went on between Hat and Judith that summer; for the tobacco field claimed them both.
But Judith was young and buoyant. Tobacco did not have to be hoed every day; and these seasons of hard and continuous toil gave to the less strenuous19 days something of the feeling of holidays. In spite of the tobacco crop, life remained full of pleasures for Judith. She liked to work in her garden and see the beans and peas and cabbages making sturdy
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growth under her care. She liked to feed her chickens and turkeys morning and evening and note how fast the little chicks and young turkeys were growing and how strong and firm were their bodies. She liked to set hens and care for the little chicks after they came out of the shell. She planted morning glories and nasturtiums about the house and trained them up on rude trellises made of tobacco sticks. The summer was full of radiant mornings a-quiver with sunshine with sweet smells and the carolling of birds, and cool, quiet evenings when she and Jerry sat together on the doorstep through the slow-falling midsummer twilight20 until the familiar outline of hills and trees melted into a blur21 of darkness and the last sleepy twitter of little birds drowsed into silence. To Judith, as to the growing plants and the wild things of the fields and woods, the sun still meant joyous22 life and growth, its absence, peace and sleep. She was not much more given to thinking than was the mocking bird in the hickory tree over the house; and she enjoyed her life even as he.
In September the tobacco ripened23. The leaves turned from green to a rich gold and the crop was ready to harvest. Jerry refused to let Judith help with this strenuous task and hired his brother Andy instead. When the two men came in from the field after "cuttin'" their hands, faces and clothes were smeared24 thickly with the sticky tobacco sap and its rank odor filled the kitchen.
After the tobacco had been allowed to wilt2 in the field, they hauled it to Hiram Stone's nearest tobacco barn, a big structure built on the top of the ridge25 about half a mile from Jerry's field.
It was a great relief to Jerry when the last load was hauled in and hung up. So many things can happen to spoil a tobacco crop that he had lived in constant anxiety ever since the plants had been set in the ground. The weather had favored Scott County that year, and the tobacco was heavy and of fine quality.
"Naow, by gollies, if she don't up an' heat in the barn the crop's made," he said to himself.
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The outdoor work with the crop was over and the rest was on the knees of the gods. Jerry now had his corn to work with. As he cut the corn and stacked it in shocks, and as he and Judith together shucked out the ears, Jerry watched the weather with an anxious eye. If there came a warm, damp day, he grew uneasy; and a succession of warm, damp days sent him to the tobacco barn to examine anxiously the yellowish-brown bunches and open the doors wider so that the air could circulate more freely.
"If she heats an' spiles now after all our work, won't it be a dirty shame?" he said to Judith one day, when she had accompanied him on one of these visits.
"I wonder if there's anything the matter with the terbaccer, Jerry? It don't somehow seem to smell right to me," said Judith, sniffing27 the air critically. "I allus did love the smell of terbaccer a-dryin' in the barn. But this kinda makes me feel sick to my stummick."
"Smells all right to me," opined Jerry. "Smells durn good." He sniffed28 again.
"Must be sumpin wrong with your smeller, Judy."
"I dunno what's wrong," doubted Judith, "but it sholy hain't got a good smell to me."
As the days passed, Judith began to notice that other things besides the tobacco had a queer, unnatural29, slightly nauseating30 smell. She supposed at first that she had eaten something that had disagreed with her and that the effect would pass off in a day or so. The trouble, however, grew worse instead of better. It came on so slowly, so subtly and insidiously32, that she was in its grip before she fully34 realized that there had been a change. She thought that the first time that she had noticed anything unusual in her feelings was the day at the tobacco barn. But she could not be sure. As she looked back she imagined that she had felt other queer sensations even before that. The beginnings of the strange disease were shrouded35 in mystery.
Some canned salmon36 that they had for dinner a few days after the visit to the tobacco barn did not taste good at all.
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Judith could not understand why. She had always loved canned salmon. It was a store delicacy37 rarely indulged in and hence much relished38 by the rural population of Scott County.
"What's wrong with this here salmon, Jerry?" she asked, turning it over listlessly with her fork. "It hain't spiled, an' yet it don't taste good, nohaow."
"Tastes good to me," said Jerry. "I cud eat a barrel of it. Gimme yours if you hain't a-goin' to eat it."
She gave him what was left on her plate and he ate it greedily and finished the can.
"I'm afraid you've worked too hard in the field this summer, Judy," he said anxiously. "I hadn't otta let you."
"I don't hardly think it's that," she answered languidly. There was no trace left of her usual animation39. She seemed a different person.
As day after day passed and she got no better, she began to realize that a great change had taken place in herself and in the world about her. Nothing seemed at all the same. The fields and lanes, the dooryard, and particularly the house, were full of lurking40, insidious33 stenches that attacked her on every hand and turned her stomach. Everything that she looked at seemed to have something ugly and repulsive41 about it. The very morning glories and nasturtiums were gaudy42 and tiresome43 and the smell of the nasturtiums sickened her. She particularly loathed44 the sights and smells of the kitchen and fled from them as often as she could. The odor of frying fat, of burning wood, or of beans boiling on the stove sent her reeling to the outside. There she gulped45 great draughts46 of the pure air, and as she grew calmer, breathed long and deep until her nausea31 had subsided47. She found that she suffered much less when out of doors and would have stayed there all the time if she had not had to cook for Jerry. She did it as long as she could hold out. But sometimes it was too much for her, and she had to lie down in the bedroom and let Jerry find himself something to eat as best he could.
She detested48 the kitchen. The oilcloth-covered table, the blue dishes formerly49 so much prized, the coffee pot, and the
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big white water pitcher50 were objects of loathing51 to her. She hated the sight of the calendars and little pictures that she had tacked26 on the walls. There was one picture that particularly irritated her, though she could not have told why. It was a still life representing dead grouse52 and partridges lying on a table. One day she took the picture down from the wall and stuffed it into the stove, getting at least a momentary53 feeling of satisfaction from hearing it crackle up the stovepipe.
There was one dish that seemed to her especially odious54, a berry bowl that Lizzie May had given her as a wedding present. It was made of imitation Tiffany glass, and she had thought it lovely until this strange malady55 had seized upon her. Now she could not bear to look at the crude bronze and green and purple lights that it cast at her. It seemed an evil and poisonous thing. She poked56 it into the bottom of one of the bureau drawers and covered it up with sheets and pillow slips.
Jerry, too, came in for his share of the general odium. She developed a great dislike for certain little inoffensive habits that he had, such as rubbing his hands together over the fire, whistling loudly as he went about his chores and teasing the pup for the fun of hearing him growl58 and snap. When he kissed her, which she now rarely allowed him to do, she was conscious with a shiver of repugnance59 that he needed a shave and that he had been chewing tobacco.
One afternoon, when existence about the house seemed intolerable, she put on her sunbonnet and started out on the cowpath that led along the top of the ridge and down into the hollow where Hat and Luke lived.
Hat was plucking geese in the back dooryard. This side of the house was littered with an accumulation of broken boards, rusty60 pieces of scrap61 iron, old rags, papers, empty bottles, discarded cooking utensils62 and rusted-out tin cans. Hat was not the pink-and-white vision that she had been on the day when she had first visited Judith. She wore a ragged63 calico wrapper, faded by much sun and many washings, into a dismal64 drab. About her waist was pinned a greasy65 gunny
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sack to serve as an apron66. The short ends of her coarse black hair hung in uncombed rattails about her face; and her great feet, planked firmly on the ground with the toes turned in, were bare and very dirty. Her clothes, her hair, and her perspiring69 face were powdered thickly with the down from the feathers which fell like snow about her and frosted the ground for yards around. Between her knees she gripped the goose's head and with her big, coarse hands plucked away great handfuls of the soft, white, fluffy70 down from the breast and under the wings and stuffed them into a stiff paper flour sack that stood open at her side. The goose struggled and squawked mightily71. Hat only gripped the prisoner more firmly between her great knees and went about her task more vigorously.
As Judith came up she was greeted by a strong smell of pigsty72. Luke had had a good corn crop and was fattening73 several hogs74 that fall. Three or four lean hounds that were slinking about the dooryard barked in a perfunctory, spasmodic way, then relapsed into silence. Hat stopped for a moment to try to brush away with her down-covered hand some of the fluff that clung irritatingly about her eyes.
"Land alive, Judy, I sholy do hate to pick geese," she gasped75. "I git all het up, an' then the durn stuff sticks in the sweat, an' you wouldn't believe haow it itches76 me. But it's gotta be done, an' there hain't nobody else that'll do it. Feathers is a good price this year. An' when these feathers is turned into money, it's me that's a-goin' to handle it. Las' time we sold feathers, Luke he got holt o' the money an' that's the last I ever seen of it. An' it was me that raised 'em an' fed 'em an' picked 'em an' done every durn thing."
Hat's voice trembled with anger and self-pity. Judith opened her mouth to start to say something; but Hat did not wait to hear what it might be. She was seething77 with a sense of wrong and glad to have somebody in whom to confide78.
"The men sholy do have it easy compared with us wimmin, Judy," she continued. "Here all this summer I worked like a dawg in the terbaccer a-settin' an' a-toppin' an' a-hoein' an' a-wormin' an' a-cuttin'; an' all the fore5 part o' the winter I'll
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spend a-strippin'. An' then along about Christmas Luke'll haul the terbaccer off to Lexington an' sell it an' put the money in his pocket an' I won't never see a dollar of it. An' if I even want a few cents to buy me calico for a sun-bonnet, I gotta most go daown on my knees an' beg for it. I work jes as hard in the crop as he does. An' then what does he do while I cook an' wash dishes an' clean the house an' do the washin' an' tend the chickens an' turkeys? He feeds an' tends the hosses. That's what he's got to do outside of his crop. He hain't never picked a goose in his life; an' he wouldn't pick one if they died for lack o' pickin'. He says pickin' geese is wimmin's work. I tell you what I'm a-goin' to do. Nex' summer I ain't a-goin' to touch hand to his corn ner his durn terbaccer crop. If pickin' geese is wimmin's work, settin' an' hoein' terbaccer is man's work, an' he kin14 do it hisse'f 'ithout any he'p from me. I'm jes sick an' tired of slavin' like a mule79 an' gittin' nothin' fer it."
She paused on the brink80 of tears. A large tortoise shell cat arched her back and rubbed herself against the legs of her mistress, then reached up her head and sniffed delicately at the goose.
"An' then," she went on in the next breath, "with all his huntin' foxes most every night an' keepin' all them lazy haounds a-slinkin' raound the place an' a-eatin' up the feed the chickens otta have, he can't keep the foxes from gittin' my geese. Las' night when I went to ketch 'em up to coop 'em I found my biggest goose was missin'. An' this mornin' when I was a-lookin' up my turkeys, sure nuf I come on the feathers jes over that little hill yonder. I was that vexed81 an' disgusted. Think of it! Him an' all his durn haounds together ain't as smart as one fox! An' what's he a-doin' naow, while I'm a-slavin' an' a-sweatin' over these geese? He's a-standin' yonder by the shed a-chawin' terbaccer an' a-gassin' with young Bob Crupper. He's been there in that one spot this good two hours, an' he'll be there like enough till chore time to-night. Men makes me sick; always a-sunnin' theirselves around the barnyard like flies on a dunghill."
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She stopped, exhausted82 by her passionate83 jeremiad84, and relaxed her hold upon the goose, which she had finished plucking. It ran off squawking indignantly. She made a vain attempt to scatter85 the down from about her nostrils86 by blowing upward, then brushed her nose frantically87 with her furry88 hand. "Ouf," she puffed89, irritated beyond endurance by the clinging stuff.
Judith looked in the direction of the wagon90 shed and saw Luke and Bob Crupper leaning in easy attitudes against an old spring wagon that was drawn91 up outside the shed. From time to time they changed the weight of their bodies from one leg to the other or spat92 idly into the scattered93 straw. As she was looking, she saw Bob Crupper turn his head in her direction for a moment and then say something to Luke. Luke made some reply, and she could see the two men laughing together. Hat, too, had noticed the little pantomime.
"I wonder what them two was a-sayin'?" said Judith, casting another look in the direction of the two men.
"Sumpin nasty, I'll betcha," snapped Hat in a tone of disgust. "When men gits to laffin' together you kin be sure one or 'nother of 'em has come out with some dirty talk."
Judith knew that there was much truth in Hat's accusation94; and she had a momentary feeling of curiosity as to what had been said, for she felt sure that it had been about herself.
Hat went to the coop to get another goose and came back carrying the big white bird with its head under her arm. The intelligent creature seized a moment when Hat's arm muscles were somewhat relaxed to wrench95 its head free and bite her captor viciously on the hand. She screamed shrilly96 with pain and anger.
"Damn the critter!" she cried, wrenching97 her hand loose and stuffing the offending head back under her arm. "Lord love you, Judy, you hain't got no idea haow hard a goose kin bite."
"I have, too," answered Judith. "I bin57 bit more'n once."
"I wisht Luke had," said Hat, glancing darkly in the direction of her husband, as she settled herself to the task of
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plucking. "Have you hearn the last news abaout Ziemer Whitmarsh, Judy, an' the way he's been a-carryin' on with Minnie Pooler?"
"I ain't hearn nothing lately nor been nowhere," answered Judith. "I been a-feelin' so bad I ain't cared to go nowhere nor do nothin'. I'd jes as leave be dead as feel the way I been a-feelin' lately."
"Why, what kin ail67 you, Judy? You've allus been so strong an' hearty98."
Judith began to tell Hat about how she had been feeling for the past two weeks or so. As she went into the details of her symptoms, a look of interest, of satisfaction, and of amused patronage99 came into Hat's face and widened into a broad grin which seemed to Judith at first disagreeable and then revolting.
"Why, Judy Pippinger, d'you mean to tell me you don't know what ails68 you?"
"Haow should I know? I don't know nothing about diseases."
Hat broke into a coarse laugh.
"You hain't got no disease, Judy, no more'n this here goose has a disease. You got a young un in yer insides. That's what's wrong with ye. You was kinda lucky it didn't come sooner."
With the last remark, Hat shot a swift, sharp glance at her visitor.
Judith was so taken by surprise that she scarcely noticed the meaning glance. It took her a full half minute to absorb the new idea. It was a possibility that of late had not occurred to her, although the thought of it had caused her some needless worry earlier in her relations with Jerry. She felt humiliated100 at disclosing what Hat appeared to consider such crass101 ignorance and disgusted at an indefinable something in Hat's attitude.
"But Hat, a caow ain't sick when she's a-fixin' to have a calf," she said at last, looking straight at Hat with her clear, level, searching eyes.
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"Wimmin has troubles caows don't never even dream on. You'll find that out afore you're married long," said Hat darkly. From this cryptic102 prophecy she launched into a description of the pregnant state and went into the subject in all its ramifications103. She did not tell Judith how it came that she who had never had a child knew so many intimate details regarding the symptoms of pregnancy104. That after all was her own affair.
Judith listened with a mixture of interest and disgust. She wished to know all that she could find out on this as on any other matter that concerned her life. But she was revolted by Hat's whispered undertone and her air of salacious secrecy105. She was glad to cut her visit short on the plea that she had work to do at home. When she left, the two men were still standing in the same attitudes by the wagon shed.
As she walked homeward along the top of the ridge, she was glad to look out over the broad expanse of clean earth, to draw in deep breaths of pure, hilltop air and to shake from her the close and fœid atmosphere of Hat's hollow.
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