Old Josh lived on the Hightower Plantation where errands were limitless and diversion must be fabricated by it self, or by the individuals who needed it. He: Josh was a tenant farmer when he was youthful, back in his 80s; he likewise took care of the pigs, drained cows, stirring milk into margarine; his child presently approached husking corn. I assume in an in the event that you needed fun, you needed to discover it, particularly in those far away days in Alabama.

His sister was raised like him, on the land Hightower claimed; his significant other kicked the bucket there and his two children were raised there.

Today his work was to wring necks, chicken necks. He wouldn't fret doing it, not a terrible work, this was during the times of the common conflict, 1863-64, when opportunity for the treatments were being stirred actually like the margarine. The greater part of what old Josh lived on was bacon, cornbread and heaps of cabbage, and a cut of chicken every so often.

His children Silas and Toby were the two men now, and went after generally to keep old Josh in some sort of serene temperament, he was or could be very troublesome.

Old granny fixed the nourishment for the Hightower young men, she'd ring the chime and the hot bread rolls and honeycombed chicken would be prepared; old Josh would go down to the spring then, at that point and fish, get those catfish, and a squirrel, and concoct them, and make clever sounds like: ding ring, ding-a-ring, imagining he was calling the Hightower young men for their dinners. Gracious he didn't loathe the young men, or even the Hightower's, he was only a chime angry, thus when it was working time, he'd go fishing frequently to demonstrate hatred for them in his quiet manner.

• He was today, at the rivulet fishing, conversing with himself, and doing his little ringer play. The boondocks was his escape. Today Silas was searching for him, and discovered him fishing, a string on his enormous toe, and two fish cooking, laying back on a stone with his coat under his neck.

"I ain' known ...Look like he needs to git out er draggin' dis here string all the ways down the Mississ-ippy. Woops-he gon, he guh see him family like me I assume. Who wid him? (he looked profound into the waters)"

(Indeed the fish got away, and Silas was peering down on him, and old Josh knew, that is the reason he was talking the was he was obviously; he had searched for him back at the horse shelter, saying, "Ain' no one wid him he left here by his self." And he got stressed over his dad, and went looking.)