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1、1Death in The WoodsSherwood AndersonIShe was an old woman and lived on a farm near the town in which I lived. All country and small-town people have seen such old women, but no one knows much about them. Such an old woma

2、n comes into town driving an old worn-out horse or she comes afoot carrying a basket. She may own a few hens and have eggs to sell. She brings them in a basket and takes them to a grocer. There she trades them in. She ge

3、ts some salt pork and some beans. Then she gets a pound or two of sugar and some flour.Afterwards she goes to the butcher's and asks for some dog-meat. She may spend ten or fifteen cents, but when she does she asks f

4、or something. Formerly the butchers gave liver to any one who wanted to carry it away. In our family we were always having it. Once one of my brothers got a whole cow's liver at the slaughter-house near the fairgroun

5、ds in our town. We had it until we were sick of it. It never cost a cent. I have hated the thought of it ever since.The old farm woman got some liver and a soup-bone. She never visited with any one, and as soon as she go

6、t what she wanted she lit out for home. It made quite a load for such an old body. No one gave her a lift. People drive right down a road and never notice an old woman like that.There was such an old woman who used to co

7、me into town past our house one Summer and Fall when I was a young boy and was sick with what was called 3running after women. When he died there wasn't much left.Jake blew in the rest. Pretty soon there wasn't a

8、ny more lumber to cut and his land was nearly all gone.He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one June day in the wheat harvest. She was a young thing then and scared to death. You see, the farmer

9、was up to something with the girl--she was, I think, a bound girl and his wife had her suspicions. She took it out on the girl when the man wasn't around. Then, when the wife had to go off to town for supplies, the f

10、armer got after her. She told young Jake that nothing really ever happened, but he didn't know whether to believe it or not.He got her pretty easy himself, the first time he was out with her. He wouldn't have mar

11、ried her if the German farmer hadn't tried to tell him where to get off. He got her to go riding with him in his buggy one night when he was threshing on the place, and then he came for her the next Sunday night.She

12、managed to get out of the house without her employer's seeing, but when she was getting into the buggy he showed up. It was almost dark, and he just popped up suddenly at the horse's head. He grabbed the horse by

13、 the bridle and Jake got out his buggy-whip.They had it out all right! The German was a tough one. Maybe he didn't care whether his wife knew or not. Jake hit him over the face and shoulders with the buggy-whip, but

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