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But he was also crying because people were so beastly and unfair, and because he was only a little boy and couldn't do anything against them. He was crying, because the red marks of the whip on his back still hurt so terribly. "But why did they want to hurt you, Linda?'' he asked that night. It hurt more than anything he had ever felt–like fire. While he was lying on the ground she hit him three times with the whip. She cried out, wrenched her hand free, and gave him such a push that he fell down. He caught hold of the woman's enormous brown hand between his own and bit it with all his might. The whip came down again, and again Linda screamed.
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"Please, please." With her free hand she held him away. Crying, he tugged at the fringe of the woman's blanket. Once, twice, three times and each time Linda screamed. Another was lying across her legs, so that she couldn't kick. Then suddenly, crash! something was upset he heard people moving about quickly, and there was another crash and then a noise like hitting a mule, only not so bony then Linda screamed. They were women's voices, and they said words he didn't understand, but he knew they were dreadful words. One afternoon, when he had been playing with the other children–it was cold, he remembered, and there was snow on the mountains–he came back to the house and heard angry voices in the bedroom. He hated them all–all the men who came to see Linda. He said the stuff in the gourd was called mescal but Linda said it ought to be called soma only it made you feel ill afterwards. Linda was in bed and so fast asleep that he couldn't wake her. When Popé went away, he went into the room. Linda drank some and Popé drank some, and then Linda laughed a lot and talked very loud and then she and Popé went into the other room.
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He had a big gourd full of stuff that looked like water only it wasn't water, but something with a bad smell that burnt your mouth and made you cough. When they got back to their house, Popé was waiting at the door, and he came in with them. "Beastly savages." He asked her what savages were.
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"How should I know how to do their beastly weaving?" she said. She went to the door and he ran after her. Suddenly people started talking very loud, and there were the women pushing Linda away, and Linda was crying.
He played with the little boys for a long time. Linda told him to sit in the corner with the other children, while she went and helped the women.
He remembered a huge room, rather dark and there were big wooden things with strings fastened to them, and lots of women standing round them–making blankets, Linda said. He lifted it and pushed but the door wouldn't open. Standing on tiptoe he could just reach the big wooden latch.
"Linda, Linda." He kicked and wriggled, but the man carried him across to the door, opened it, put him down on the floor in the middle of the other room, and went away, shutting the door behind him. Linda was still holding him, still saying, "No, no." The man said something short and angry, and suddenly her hands were gone. The man put up his other hand and lifted him up. "No, no!" But the man took hold of one of his arms, and it hurt. "No," Linda said again, and he felt her hand squeezing him more tightly. Linda said, "No." But the man bent over the bed towards him and his face was huge, terrible the black ropes of hair touched the blanket. In those other words he did not understand so well, she said to the man, "Not with John here." The man looked at him, then again at Linda, and said a few words in a soft voice. Linda put her hand on him and he felt safer. He liked the bracelet but all the same, he was frightened he hid his face against Linda's body. His hair was like two black ropes, and round his arm was a lovely silver bracelet with blue stones in it. She had pulled the blanket up to her chin, but the man pulled it down again. A man was saying something to Linda, and Linda was laughing. "Streptocock-Gee to Banbury-T" and "Bye Baby Banting, soon you'll need decanting." Her voice got fainter and fainter … There was a loud noise, and he woke with a start.