"
"And does not anybody, except Darry when he goes with the
carriage?"
"Can't, Miss Daisy; it's miles and miles; and no place for
niggers neither."
"Can you read the Bible, Margaret?"
"Guess not, missis; we's too stupid; aint good for coloured
folks to read."
"Does _nobody_, among all the people, read the Bible?" said I,
once more stopping Margaret in my dismay.
"Uncle Darry — he does," said the girl; "and he — do 'spoun
some; but I don't make no count of his 'spoundations."
I did not know quite what she meant; but I had no time for
anything more. I let her go, locked my door and kneeled down;
with the burden on my heart of this new revelation; that there
were hundreds of people under the care of my father and
mother, who were living without church and without Bible, in
desperate ignorance of everything worth knowing. If I papa had
only been at Magnolia with me! I thought I could have
persuaded him to build a church and let somebody come and
teach the people. But now — what could I do? And I asked the
Lord, what could I do? but I did not see the answer.
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