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Sagegrass

Sagegrass by DELMAS W. ABBOTT Delmas W. Abbott was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and graduated from Berea College. For many years he was a social worker, spending a great deal of time in the eastern Kentucky region. Since World War II, he has worked at various locations in the United States with the last twenty years spent mainly in New York City. He has published several paperback novels, and his short stories have appeared in national and literary magazines. "Sagegrass," under a different title, first appeared in The Northern Review in Canada and received honorable mention in Best American Short Stories. "Where's your mammy?" Papa asked pocket and wiped the sweat from his face; when he came in from feeding the mules. "Don't know," I told him. "She wasn't then he ran his fingers through his bushy black hair to loosen it. He shifted his here when we got home from school." "Did you come right home?" "Yeah. We've been here about two hours. weight to his crippled foot for a second, and I noticed little clods of dirt caught in the cuffs of his overalls. He had been I guess Mama's over at Uncle Chester's. He got http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

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University of North Carolina Press
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1940-5081
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Abstract

by DELMAS W. ABBOTT Delmas W. Abbott was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and graduated from Berea College. For many years he was a social worker, spending a great deal of time in the eastern Kentucky region. Since World War II, he has worked at various locations in the United States with the last twenty years spent mainly in New York City. He has published several paperback novels, and his short stories have appeared in national and literary magazines. "Sagegrass," under a different title, first appeared in The Northern Review in Canada and received honorable mention in Best American Short Stories. "Where's your mammy?" Papa asked pocket and wiped the sweat from his face; when he came in from feeding the mules. "Don't know," I told him. "She wasn't then he ran his fingers through his bushy black hair to loosen it. He shifted his here when we got home from school." "Did you come right home?" "Yeah. We've been here about two hours. weight to his crippled foot for a second, and I noticed little clods of dirt caught in the cuffs of his overalls. He had been I guess Mama's over at Uncle Chester's. He got

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1974

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