Michener, James A.
“Also, the route had to be painstakingly deciphered, with rascals on every hand to belay and betray, especially when the men in charge were slaves. But Trajan was resourceful, forty-seven years old and afraid of very little, and with Jaxifer's help he proposed to deliver this cotton to Mexico and earn his mistress a fine penny for doing it.
They had been on the trail about a week when Trajan saw, joining them from the west, a remarkable sight: two wagons, well loaded with bales but without drive...rs. 'What can this be?' he asked his fellow drivers in Gullah, and they could not guess, so he left his own wagons and started walking toward the mystery, but as he drew close he heard a child's voice crying: 'Don't you come no closer,' and when he looked up he found himself facing a very big gun in the possession of a very small boy. On the second wagon, with his own gun properly pointed, sat an even smaller boy.
'What you doin'?' Trajan asked, indicating that the boys should put up their guns.
'One more step!' the first boy warned, and Trajan realized that he meant it, so he stopped, held out his empty hands, and asked: 'What you doin', boys?' And after a pause in which the first boy looked back to the second, they confessed that they were taking their family's cotton to Galveston.MoreLess
They had been on the trail about a week when Trajan saw, joining them from the west, a remarkable sight: two wagons, well loaded with bales but without drive...rs. 'What can this be?' he asked his fellow drivers in Gullah, and they could not guess, so he left his own wagons and started walking toward the mystery, but as he drew close he heard a child's voice crying: 'Don't you come no closer,' and when he looked up he found himself facing a very big gun in the possession of a very small boy. On the second wagon, with his own gun properly pointed, sat an even smaller boy.
'What you doin'?' Trajan asked, indicating that the boys should put up their guns.
'One more step!' the first boy warned, and Trajan realized that he meant it, so he stopped, held out his empty hands, and asked: 'What you doin', boys?' And after a pause in which the first boy looked back to the second, they confessed that they were taking their family's cotton to Galveston.MoreLess
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