The sound and the fury by William Faulkner Read Free Book Online Page A

back."
"You all never caught them." Frony said.
"If I say you and T.P. can come too, will you let him hold it." Caddy said.
"Aint nobody said me and T.P. got to mind you." Frony said.
"If I say you dont have to, will you let him hold it." Caddy said. "All right." Frony said. "Let him hold it, T.P. We going to watch them moaning."
"They aint moaning." Caddy said. "I tell you it's a party. Are they moaning, Versh."
"We aint going to know what they doing, standing here." Versh said.
"Come on." Caddy said. "Frony and T.P. dont have to mind me. But the rest of us do. You better carry him, Versh. It's getting dark."
Versh took me up and we went on around the kitchen.
    10.2
    When we looked around the corner we could see the lights coming up the drive. T.P. went back to the cellar door and opened it. You know what's down there, T.P. said. Soda water. I seen Mr Jason come up with both hands full of them. Wait here a minute.
T.P. went and looked in the kitchen door. Dilsey said, What are you peeping in here for. Where's Benjy.
He out here, T.P. said.
Go on and watch him, Dilsey said. Keep him out the house now.
Yessum, T.P. said. Is they started yet.
You go on and keep that boy out of sight, Dilsey said. I got all I can tend to.
    1.9
    A snake crawled out from under the house. Jason said he wasn't afraid of snakes and Caddy said he was but she wasn't and Versh said they both were and Caddy said to be quiet, like Father said.
    10.3
    You aint got to start bellering now, T.P. said. You want some this sassprilluh. It tickled my nose and eyes.
If you aint going to drink it, let me get to it, T.P. said. All right, here tis. We better get another bottle while aint nobody bothering us. You be quiet, now.
We stopped under the tree by the parlor window. Versh set me down in the wet grass. It was cold. There were lights in all the windows.
    1.10
    "That's where Damuddy is." Caddy said. "She's sick every day now. When she gets well we're going to have a picnic."
"I knows what I knows." Frony said.
The trees were buzzing, and the grass.
"The one next to it is where we have the measles." Caddy said. "Where do you and T.P. have the measles, Frony."
"Has them just wherever we is, I reckon." Frony said.
"They haven't started yet." Caddy said.
    10.4
    They getting ready to start, T.P. said. You stand right here now while I get that box so we can see in the window. Here, les finish drinking this here sassprilluh. It make me feel just like a squinch owl inside. We drank the sassprilluh and T.P. pushed the bottle through the lattice, under the house, and went away. I could hear them in the parlor and I clawed my hands against the wall. T.P. dragged the box. He fell down, and he began to laugh. He lay there, laughing into the grass. He got up and dragged the box under the window, trying not to laugh.
"I skeered I going to holler." T.P. said. "Git on the box and see is they started."
    1.11
    "They haven't started because the band hasn't come yet." Caddy said.
"They aint going to have no band." Frony said.
"How do you know." Caddy said.
"I knows what I knows." Frony said.
"You dont know anything." Caddy said. She went to the tree. "Push me up, Versh."
"Your paw told you to stay out that tree." Versh said.
"That was a long time ago." Caddy said. "I expect he's forgotten about it. Besides, he said to mind me tonight. Didn't he didn't he say to mind me tonight."
"I'm not going to mind you." Jason said. "Frony and T.P. are not going to either."
"Push me up, Versh." Caddy said.
"All right." Versh said. "You the one going to get whipped. I aint." He went and pushed Caddy up into the tree to the first limb. We watched the muddy bottom of her drawers. Then we couldn't see her. We could hear the tree thrashing.
"Mr Jason said if you break that tree he whip you." Versh said.
"I'm going to tell on her too." Jason said.
The tree quit thrashing. We looked up into the still branches.
"What you seeing." Frony whispered.
    10.5
    I saw them. Then I saw Caddy, with flowers in