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am not laying out,” Rufus replied. “I was going to school and my Aunt Hannah told me I didn’t have to go to school today or tomorrow or not till—not for a few days. She said I mustn’t. So I am not laying out. I’m just staying out.”
And another of the boys said, “That’s right. If his daddy is dead he don’t have to go back to school till after the funerl.”
While Rufus had been speaking two other boys had crossed over to join them and now one of them said, “He don’t have to. He can lay out cause his daddy got killed,” and Rufus looked at the boy gratefully and the boy looked back at him, it seemed to Rufus, with deference.
But the first boy who had spoken said, resentfully, “How do you know?”
And the second boy, while his companion nodded, said, “Cause my daddy seen it in the paper. Can’t your daddy read the paper?”