A Daughter of the Morning. Gale Zona
saved, off and on, for two years. I had five dollars. So neither of us was worried very much about money; but we wanted to save all we could. We went to five or six places that were nice, but they cost too much; and to two that we could have taken, only the lady said she didn't want a baby in the house.
"If they're born in your house, do you turn 'em out?" I says to one of 'em.
Pretty soon we found a little grassy place with trees, and big buildings around it, and we went in that and sat down on the grass.
"Mis' Bingy," I says, "was you ever in the city before?"
"Sure I was," she says, proud, "twelve years ago. We come to his uncle's funeral. But he didn't leave him anything."
"I was here once," I says, "when I was 'leven. To have my eyes done to. And once when I was eighteen, when Mother got her teeth. Did you ever go to the theater here?" I ask' her.
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