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The Children of Blood

The Children of Blood Betty Payne James Appalachian Heritage, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 1981, pp. 60-80 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1981.0041 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442366/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:41 GMT from JHU Libraries \ ^ rfS*"^! s? &$j$% "*W <italic>*4fl</italic> \W C-* •f ?·?? ¦<-. si THE CHILDREN OF BLOOD by Betty Payne James SABINA The Yankee cried out. I saw that it was against his will, even unconscious as he was, for he clenched his teeth against the force of it and seemed to try to strangle the cry in his throat. Dr. Mullens looked up at me, and Grumpa turned away from the bed, limping back over to sink down in the rocker again. The Ramsey woman just sat there looking her hatred straight ahead, and I felt his agony running all the way up through my body, so that my hands shook, trying to hold the candle steady. "The horse fell on him?" "Yes," I said, and we should have killed him as he lay in the road, but it would have been murder then, that despairing knowledge of murder in Andy's eyes turning me desperate. Overwhelmed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Children of Blood

James, Betty Payne
Appalachian Review , Volume 9 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Betty Payne James Appalachian Heritage, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 1981, pp. 60-80 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1981.0041 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442366/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:41 GMT from JHU Libraries \ ^ rfS*"^! s? &$j$% "*W <italic>*4fl</italic> \W C-* •f ?·?? ¦<-. si THE CHILDREN OF BLOOD by Betty Payne James SABINA The Yankee cried out. I saw that it was against his will, even unconscious as he was, for he clenched his teeth against the force of it and seemed to try to strangle the cry in his throat. Dr. Mullens looked up at me, and Grumpa turned away from the bed, limping back over to sink down in the rocker again. The Ramsey woman just sat there looking her hatred straight ahead, and I felt his agony running all the way up through my body, so that my hands shook, trying to hold the candle steady. "The horse fell on him?" "Yes," I said, and we should have killed him as he lay in the road, but it would have been murder then, that despairing knowledge of murder in Andy's eyes turning me desperate. Overwhelmed

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