Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.” Old Man Warner was saying, "Come on, come on, everyone." Steve Adams was in the front of the crowd of villagers, with Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles. You'll have to go ahead and I'll catch up with you." Dunbar had small stones in both hands, and she said, gasping for breath, "I can't run at all. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box. "Let's finish quickly."Īlthough the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand.
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