young girls *hipping their babies. Little black, yellow and brown babies, sucking their thumbs and clinging to the sturdy legs of their mothers. Three or four little ones surrounded each young lady. Living dolls , the cute little street urchins surrounding them looked just like little stair steps.
The old lady hurls a huge wad of tobacco juice into the wood burning stove. Red flames leap into the air. The spittle crackles. Old lady wipes the brown spittle clinging to old cracked lips on her flour sack apron.
"Dem chullun all you got ...all you gon' eva' git wurf (worth) anything in dis world. Luv and nurture that chile proper. Don't mistreat dat baby cause dey daddy don't want no part of you. It ain't duh chile fault. And don't you eva' put no man ova yo' chile!"
"Do if you wanna ... gon' live the rest of your days 'shame... In bondage."
*Hipping - carrying a child straddled on your hip. Usually because the young child is too young to keep up with his fast walking mother and older siblings. Many pregnant mothers have to hip the current baby in order to get ready for the new baby coming.
Excerpt from the JR WALTERS CHRONICLES
Copyright May 25, 2014. All rights reserved .
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