A Gathering of Old Men Visions of the "Gallant South" Quotes

I went out the back door and looked—and there she was, way over yonder, under one of them pecan trees, little bitty thing, ain't five foot tall, feeling in all them weeds with a stick for pecans. Lord Jesus, I thought to myself, now just s'posing, just s'posing, now, a snake or something come up there and bite that old woman in them weeds. (2.3)

While she took the pie to the kitchen, I went out to the west gallery looking for Bea. I found her sitting in her rocking chair by the door. Gazing across the flower garden toward the trees in the outer pasture. Beyond the trees was the road that led you down into the quarters. At the mouth of the road was the main highway, leading toward Bayonne, and just on the other side of the highway was the St. Charles River. A light breeze had just risen up from the river, and I caught a faint odor from the sweet-olive bush which stood in the far right corner of the garden. (3.89)

We goes fishing every Tuesday and Thursday. We got just one little spot now. Ain't like it used to be when you had the whole river to fish on. The white people, they done bought up the river now, and you got nowhere to go but that one little spot. Me and Mat goes there every Tuesday and Thursday. Other people use it other days, but on Tuesday and Thursday they leaves it for us. We been going to that one little spot like that every Tuesday and Thursday the last ten, 'leven years. (4.1)