Word: allusions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing at all unusual were going on. "I think he's dead," one of them says at last. "Dig it deep," Boss Ford replies, "so's the kyoats doan git 'im." And at the graveside he says unemotionally, "He was a good man with cattle. Allus did the best he knew how." And they throw on the dirt...
...tame hen that . . . could not possibly fly." But every few stories Bates varies his tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle Silas tells the story of a landlady with a passion for making puddings. One day, chance dropped her in his lap, and "arter that I wur never in want for the nicest bit o' pudden in the world...
...Allus kep' inside...