he took gran’paw’s old fiddle an’ tuned hit up an’ sot thar an’ played everything you evah heered. He played like the’ war birds singin’ an’ rain fallin’, an’ like the wind when hit goes wailin’ round the house in the pine tops — soft an’ sad — like that-a-way. Gran’paw’s old fiddle. I used to keer a heap fer hit, but one time Farwell got religion, an’ he took an’ broke hit ‘cause he war ‘feared Frale mount larn to play an’ hit would be a temptation of the devil to him.”

“Well, I say! That was a crime, you know.”

“Yes. Sometimes I lay here an’ say what-all did I marry Farwell fer, anyway. Well — every man has his failin’s, the’