47 tell me,” she said to me once with a faint mocking smile, the white people have all “But “do these things too or it’s only the people looking like us?” 48 I laughed. d’ya mean,” I said. white people have even better.” Then: beat up a “What “The “I white girl in my class last term.” 49 up white people!” Her tone was incredulous.9 “Beating 50 you mean!” I said, using an expression of hers. called me a name.” “How “She 51 For some reason Da-duh could not quite get over this and repeated in the same hushed, shocked voice, up white people now! Oh, the lord, the world’s changing up so I can “Beating scarce recognize it anymore.” 52 One morning toward the end of our stay, Da-duh led me into a part of the gully that we had never visited before, an area darker and more thickly overgrown than the rest, almost impenetrable. There in a small clearing amid the dense bush, she stopped before an incredibly tall royal palm which rose cleanly out of the ground, and drawing the eye up with it, soared high above the trees around it into the sky. It appeared to be touching the blue dome of sky, to be flaunting10 its dark crown of fronds right in the blinding white face of the late morning sun. 53 watched me a long time before she spoke, and then she said very quietly, “All right, now, tell me if you’ve got anything
47 “But tell me,” she said to me once with a faint mocking smile, “do the white people have all these things too or it’s only the people looking like us?” 48 I laughed. “What d’ya mean,” I said. “The white people have even better.” Then: “I beat up a white girl in my class last term.” 49 “Beating up white people!” Her tone was incredulous.9 50 “How you mean!” I said, using an expression of hers. “She called me a name.” 51 For some reason Da-duh could not quite get over this and repeated in the same hushed, shocked voice, “Beating up white people now! Oh, the lord, the world’s changing up so I can scarce recognize it anymore.” 52 One morning toward the end of our stay, Da-duh led me into a part of the gully that we had never visited before, an area darker and more thickly overgrown than the rest, almost impenetrable. There in a small clearing amid the dense bush, she stopped before an incredibly tall royal palm which rose cleanly out of the ground, and drawing the eye up with it, soared high above the trees around it into the sky. It appeared to be touching the blue dome of sky, to be flaunting10 its dark crown of fronds right in the blinding white face of the late morning sun. 53 watched me a long time before she spoke, and then she said very quietly, “All right, now, tell me if you’ve got anything
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