“Tell you what I’ll do,” his father said, “I’ll
sing
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bags you one song, and then you be a good boy and go on to sleep.
Will you do that?” The child pressed his forehead upward against the strong warm
hand and nodded.
“What’ll we sing?” his father asked.
“Froggy
would a wooin go,” said the child; it was the longest.
“At’s a long
one,” his father said, “at’s a long old song. You won’t ever be awake that long,
will you?”
He nodded.
“Ah right,” said his father; and the child
took a fresh hold on Jackie and settled back looking up at him. He
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clearance sang very low and very quietly: Frog he would a wooin’ go
uh-hooooo!, Frog he would go wooin’ go uh-hooooo, uh-hoooooo, and all about the
courting-clothes the frog wore, and about the difficulties and ultimate success
of the courtship and what several of the neighbors said and who the preacher
would be and what he said about the match, uhhoooo, and finally, what will the
weddin supper be uhooooo, catfish balls and sassafras tea uhhoooo, while he
gazed at the wall and the child gazed up into his eyes which
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cheap did not look at him and into the singing face in the dark.
Every couple of verses or so the father glanced down, but the child’s eyes were
as darkly and steadfastly open at the end of the long song as at the beginning,
though it was beginning to be an effort for him.
He was amused and
pleased. Once he got started singing, he always loved to sing. There were ever
so many of the old songs that he knew, which he liked best, and also some of the
popular
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outlet songs; and although he would have been embarrassed if he had
been made conscious of it, he also enjoyed the sound of his own voice. “Ain’t
you asleep yet?” he said, but even the child felt there was no danger of his
leaving, and shook his head quite frankly.
“Sing gallon,” he said, for
he liked the amusement he knew would come into his father’s face, though he did
not understand it. It came, and he struck up the song, still more quietly
because it was a fast, sassy tune that
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canvas would be likely to wake you up. He was amused because his
son had always mistaken the words “gal and” for “gallon,” and because his wife
and to a less extent her relatives were not entirely amused by his amusement.
They felt, he knew, that he was not a man to take the word “gallon” so purely as
a joke; not that the drinking had been any sort of problem, for a long time now.
He sang.