her mother pounded guinea com in a large mortar, her mother sang a pounding song. Marie listened in amazement. The song said that Uncle Goro had sought a husband for his only niece in vain because the niece was a Christian and the pagan boys did not want her. She sang this phrase over and over until Marie blushed with hot fire. The
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Marie and her mother pounded guinea corn.
villagers began to smile as they listened to Marie’s mother sing. Then with a twinkle in her eye, the mother changed the rhythm of her song. In another beat she sang out, “ But the village pastor has a son and he has asked for Uncle Goro’s niece.” Marie dropped the pedestal and ran to hide her embarrassment in some secret place. The villagers laughed as she ran. They thought her mother’s song a great joke. Marie found herself at the gran ite rock where the women dried their soaked maniocs. There in the warm sunshine she sat and con sidered the news. Uncle Goro was angry because he could not find a pagan boy to marry her. But the pastor had asked for her for his own son. Marie’s parents had evi dently accepted. These thoughts she turned over and over in her mind. A timid lizard ventured near the silent girl. Marie laughed out loud and the lizard darted away to safe ty. “ It’s good,” she said aloud. “ I’ve asked God to make a crooked thing straight and He has. I am content.”
was very hard on Marie who gave no offense except in the continual song that was on her lips. As the days of planting passed Uncle Goro grew more and more surly. That evening, Marie spilled a little drinking water on Uncle Goro and the old man slapped her viciously. Marie fell on the black earthen pot she was carrying and it broke under her weight. She knew her lip was cut. She laid her face against the damp ground and sobbed. The young girl’s mother had stood all she could from her goat- livered brother-in-law. “ Get out, brother!” she shouted, “ and don’t come eat with us again until you have less bile in your liver.” Marie lay huddled on the ground waiting for her uncle’s angry reply. None came. Instead her mother lifted her with gentle hands and lay her near the fire. She ran quick ly to the river for fresh water and washed the blood from Marie’s face. Her father covered her with their only store blanket. After so many tears, Marie slept soundly. The next morning as Marie and
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