Stephen Mitchell's Journey - Pansy
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Chapter one of Stephen Mitchell's Journey. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librax dot org Stephen Mitchell's Journey by PANsy CHAPTER IN UPHIL Start Now don't drive fast, Stephen, it looks as if it was going to be a warm day, and the horses had a hard pull of it yesterday. And mind you, don't leave the things with anybody but Baker. He's the one I made the bargain with, and I want him there to see that it is all right. Suppose he isn't there, said Stephen, laying one hand on the wheel of the large, old fashioned farm wagon, and the other on his side, as he turned to look at the man in the gateway. He'll be there fast enough, he runs the place he thinks, and there don't any potatoes or cabbages or anything of that sort come in without he tends to them.
I don't know but he counts every one, and Anyway, you see that he's there before you deliver your goods. I ain't going to have any squabbles with him. He will as like as not, say they never came at all if he doesn't happen to see them unloaded. If he isn't on hand when you get there, you hang around till he comes, if you have to stay till night. And Stephen, don't you forget to stop in the village and ask Ms Bascombe for that pattern she promised me. I should think she might have had a chance to send it out before this time. I know Sarah Jane is about tired waiting for it. This direction came from a woman's voice in the doorway. While it was yet speaking, a small paned sash from an upper window was raised, and a curly, reddish head appeared, whose owner shouted down her commission.
Steve, you'll stop at the store and get me that green braid, won't you? Oh land, said Stephen gruffly, I don't know a green braid from a blue one. How am I going to match a thing? Why, they will match it for you the clerk will, you know. All you have got to do is to take the piece out of your pocket and tell them you want one like it, and he will find it. I should think you might do that much when you are the only one who gets a chance to go to town. You get it, Steve it will be real mean if you don't. Sarah Jane has been waiting weeks for that braid. This from the mother in the doorway. Steve looked sullen. I don't like to go to the store, he growled. I don't mind the grocery nor the shop, nor any of them things, but that dry goods store I do despise.
That fellow behind the counter is all watch chain and fingernails. He thinks he knows everything there is to know in life, and looks down on everybody that isn't behind a counter selling tape and braid and things. I wish Sarah Jane would do her own errands. She would in a minute if she had a chance, said the mother, and But you know just as well as we do that she doesn't get to town once in an age, and It is a shame too. I meant to have her get in this summer to pick out her own things, and If there had been room with the load, she might have gone with you this morning. Well there ain't room, said the man at the gate, speaking briskly. It's a heavy uphill road, and the horses are old, and Steve and the potatoes and cabbages and light truck of all sorts, is about all they can manage.
I guess Steve can get what Sarah Jane needs if he tries. You tend to it, Steve, and show you know so much anyhow. Keep track of your money, don't do no fooling with it. You will have to pay a quarter to get in at the gate, even if you don't stay half an hour. That is the cheating part of it. It is the way they make their money. Can't go in to sell a few potatoes and things without paying for the privilege. I call that cheating, but there is no use in growling. Poor folks have got to take what they find in this world. It is a pretty enough place when you get in, and lots of nice trees that you can set under and eat your dinner, and there is plenty of good water to drink, so you will have a comfortable time if you do have to wait.
But don't you come home without seeing Baker. You won't get no money without he's there, and without the money, I don't mean to have the things left.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this segment?
0:00–1:16:22
2
How does the conversation evolve?
1:16:22–2:15:41
3
How does Stephen become the Lucas family’s champion and help them?
2:15:41–3:44:05
4
What does Stephen learn about his future as a farmer and his role in the community?
3:44:05–4:33:35
5
How does Flora Anne learn to set the table and manage household chores?
4:33:35–5:20:10
6
What does Stephen discuss with the minister about prayer, clothing, and helping the Lucas family?
5:20:10–6:50:39
7
Jake’s disappearance and Flora Anne’s grief
6:50:39–8:21:02
8
Jake returns transformed and the family’s reaction
8:21:02–9:02:56