“Horse thief”
This story’s hero I was doubted by stealing the calico horse by Lud Moseley although I mistakenly rode the calico horse instead of my bareback in the dark when I met Naomi who was a daughter of Lud Moseley on Thursday nights.
In this story the description Mr. John Turner will tell you I’m not steal the horse frequently out. The hero I worked for Mr. John Turner for many years, this settings is the same Lonnie in “Kneel to the rising sun”.
“The visitor”
This is the story was first time intended to met only the hero I and Laura on Sunday, but in there not only Laura, also Drusilla, the roommate of Laura was there without saying him beforehand, I confused first but latter made good relationships with Drusilla more than Laura after Drusilla was gotten stung by a bee and I cured it.
In this story also as “Horse thief”, I felt the repetition was appeared many times, in this story was as follows: I remembered that I had been looking forward to Sunday for a whole week.
The impressive scene was the hero I pulled the poison that brought by a bee out from Drusilla: “Leaning over her I put my mouth over the swelling and sucked as hard as I could, and then I spat the poison on the ground…” and the hero I forgot all about the bee-sting and absorbed in Drusilla’s body also Drusilla absorbed in him: “I felt my lips tight over her skin and my hands gripping her shoulders against my head. I could not see her face, but I felt her hands holding tightly to me as if she were afraid she would fall if she took them away.”, and even the hero I kissed Drusilla after she did not feel the pain any more. The places of this story was the orchard and at this Drusilla was stung by the bee, I felt the orchard have the relationships with love like “The strawberry season” by Caldwell or “Paper pills” by Anderson. I felt swell the phrase “All good peaches are fuzzy”.
参考
アースキンコールドウェル著・西川正身注釈、”Kneel to the rising sun, and other stories”、研究社、1967年
コールドウェル著・鈴木重吉訳、「苺つみの季節・馬盗人」、英宝社、1982年
