who that back there!
look there. a nigger. if that don't beat all.
man, you 'bout the scariest looking something i ever seen. what you doing back up here?
them the feet you running on? my jesus my.
ohio! fool girl - you in kentucky. you 'bout a thousand miles from ohio.
you got anything on you, gal, pass for food?
i like to die i'm so hungry. thought there might be huckleberries. that's why i come up here. you having a baby?
well, i got to eat something.
boston. get me some velvet. it's a store called wilson. i seen pictures and they have the prettiest velvet.
farther than ohio.
not like in boston. be so pretty on me. you ever touch velvet? or even seen it?
what they call you?
what you gonna do, just lay there and foal?
what?
there's a house back yonder. well, not a house with people in it - more like a lean-to near the river.
make a difference, does it? you stay here, snake might get you.
sure you can lu. come on.
come on lu! you got to move faster than that. you won't get to ohio til you ninety years old, you keep moving that ways.
never know it to look at me but i used to be a good size. nice arms, everything. that was before they put me in the root cellar.
mama worked for these people here to pay for her passage but then she had me and died right after so i had to work for'em.  i was fishing off the beaver once and a nigger floated right by me. i don't like drowned people, do you? your feet remind me of him. all swole like.
you all bloody back here. gal you a mess. undo your dress - let me see.
lord, i ain't never seen a poorer excuse for a-
jesus. it's a tree lu. a chokecherry tree. i had me some whippings but i don't remember nothing like this. glad i ain't you.  what god have in mind i wonder. . you thank your maker i come along. spiderwebs all i can do for you. what's in here ain't enough. i'll look outside. maybe i ought to break them blossoms open and let the pus run.  that you ain't dead yet lu's a miracle. make you a bet. you make it through the night, you make it all the way.
it's gonna hurt now. anything dead coming back to life hurts. stop wiggling, girl. "when the busy day is done and my weary little one rocketh to and fro; when the
cause of me, you up and walking. see, jesus - lu made it through. i'm good at sick things, ain't i?
what's that all over your dress?
you got another baby waiting for you?
you hungry?
you want shoes?
i figured how.
jesus looking at you, girl!
what you doing that for!? ain't you got a brain in your head? stop that right now! i said stop it, lu. you the dumbest thing on this here earth, lu!. lu!
oh jesus, i'm awful sorry 'bout the braggin. i need you here now. come on jesus. don't be getting lost on me now.
damn daddies never around 'cept for the fun part. biggest joke god made on woman was giving men the planters 'stead of the soil!! push!
my lord. she's never gonna know who i am. you gonna tell her? who brought her into this world. you better tell her, you hear! you say miss amy denver. of boston.