Chapter 3 April 7, 1928 (Tuesday)

April 7, 1928 (Tuesday) "Unbutton it for me, Versh," she said. "Don't explain it to her, Versh," Quentin said. "It's not my clothes," Versh said. "You untie it, Versh," Katie said. "Otherwise, I'll tell Dilsey what you did yesterday." So Versh unbuttoned it for her. "How dare you take it off," Quentin said.Katie took off her dress and threw it on the bank.Now she had nothing on her but the vest and drawers; and Quentin slapped her, and she slipped and fell into the water.When she stood up straight, she poured water on Quentin, and Quentin poured water on her.Water splashed on Versh and me too.So Versh picked me up and sat me on the bank.He said he was going to tell the adults, and Quentin and Katie poured water on him.He hid behind a bush.

"I'm going to tell Mommy you're both naughty," Versh said. Quentin climbed to the bank and tried to catch Versh, but Versh ran away and Quentin couldn't catch him.When Quentin turned back, Versh stopped in his tracks, yelling that he was going to report.Katie told him they would let him back if he didn't report.Versh said he wasn't going to report, so they let him back. "You should be satisfied now," said Quentin. "We're both going to get whipped." "I'm not afraid," said Katie. "I'm going to run away." "Hmph, you're running away," Quentin said.

"I'm going to run away and never come back," Katie said.I burst into tears.Katie turned her head and said, "Don't cry." I quickly silenced my voice.Then they played in the ditch again.Jason is playing too.He is playing far away by himself.Versh came out from behind the bushes and carried me back into the water.Katie was all wet and her ass was full of mud and I started crying and she came over and squatted in the water. "Okay, don't cry," she said. "I won't run away." I stopped crying.Katie smelled of trees when it rained. What's the matter with you, Luster said. ①Can't you stop humming and play in the water like everyone else?

① Return to "Current". Why don't you take him back.Didn't they take care of you not to let him run out of the yard? He still thought the ranch was still theirs, Luster said.Nobody could see the place from the big house anyway. We can see it.Who wants to see a fool.If you see it, you will be unlucky. Roskus came and said let's go to dinner, and Katie said it wasn't time for dinner yet. ② ②Back to that day in 1898. "No, it's here," said Roskus. "Dilsey said to tell you all to go back. Versh, bring them back." He made his way up the hill, where the cow mooed.

"Maybe by the time we get home, it'll be fucked on us," Quentin said. "It's all your fault," Katie said. "I wish we'd actually been whipped." She pulled on her dress and Versh buttoned it for her. "They won't know you got wet," Versh said. "Can't tell. Unless Jason and I report on you." "Will you tell, Jason," Katie said. "Who are you suing?" Jason said. "He won't tell," Quentin said. "Would you, Jason." "I reckon he will," said Katie. "He'll go and tell Big Muddy."

①The original text is Damuddy, which is the special pet name of Compson's children for their grandma. "He can't tell Big Muddy," said Quentin. "She's sick. If we walk slowly, it'll be too dark for them to see." "I don't care if they see it or not," Katie said. "I'll tell them myself. You carry him up the hill, Versh." "Jason won't tell," Quentin said. "You remember I made you a bow and arrow, Jason." "It's all broken," Jason said. "Let him tell," said Katie. "I'm not scared at all. Carry Maury up the hill, Versh." Versh squatted down, and I lay on his back.

②"Maolai" is Bangui's original name.After Mrs. Kang Yinsheng found out that her youngest son was an imbecile, she changed his name from "Maocai" (which was also her brother's name) to "Ban Jiming". The "name change" happened in 1900.She thought that in this way, she could get rid of her responsibility in this regard. I'll see you at the show tonight, Luster said.Let's go.We must find the forge. ① ① Return to "Current".Luster takes Benji out of the ditch. "If we walk slowly, it will be dark by the time we get home," Quentin said. ②

②Back to that day in 1898. "I don't want to walk slowly," Katie said.We climbed up the hill, but Quentin would not follow.When we got to where we could smell the pigs, he was still by the ditch.The pigs were humming and humming in front of the pig trough in the corner.Jason followed us with his hands in his pockets.Roskus was milking the cows at the barn door. The cows jumped out of the barn running. ③ ③ Return to "Current".The two of them walked to the barn again, and Benji recalled the following memory.It was the day Katie got married - April 25, 1910.That day, the boy black T. P．Steal a drink with Benji.Write down what happened to them when they got drunk.

"Yelling again," said T.P. "Ouch. I want to yell myself. Ouch." Quentin kicked T. P．kick.He kicked T. P. into the wooden trough where the pigs ate, and T. P. lay there. "Dude," said T.P., "he used to bully me like that. Y'all saw the white guy kick me again. Ouch." I didn't cry first, but I couldn't stop.I didn't cry at first, but when the ground became unstable, I cried. ④The ground continued to slope upwards, and the herds of cattle ran towards the hills, and T.P. wanted to get up.He fell again, and the cattle ran down the hill.Quentin took my arm and we walked toward the barn.But then the barn was gone, and we had to wait and wait for it to come back.I didn't see it come back.It came from behind us, and Quentin helped me lay down in the wooden trough where the cows ate.I gripped the sides of the trough.It wanted to go away too, and I held onto it tightly.The cattle ran down the hill again and through the gate.I can't stop.Quentin and T.P. go up the hill while fighting. T． P．Rolling down the hill, Quentin dragged him up the hill.Quentin hit T again. P． .I can't stop.

④ Benji also fell to the ground. These paragraphs describe how he feels after losing his sense of direction. "Stand up," Quentin said. "You stay here honestly. You are not allowed to leave until I come back." "Benji and I have to go back to see the wedding." T. P．Say. "Ouch." Quentin hit T.P. again.Then he slammed T.P. against the wall. T.P. is laughing.Every time Quentin bumped him against the wall he wanted to yell ouch, but he couldn't yell out with a giggle.I stopped crying.But I couldn't stop. T.P. fell on top of me and the barn door flew open.The door rolled down the hill, and T. P. was kicking around by himself, and he fell down again.He was still laughing, but I couldn't stop, I wanted to get up but fell down again, I couldn't stop.Versh said,

"You've had enough of it. It's going to turn upside down. Stop yelling." T． P．Still giggling.He slumped heavily against the door, laughing and laughing. "Ouch," he said. "Benji and I are going back to see the wedding. Sasha soda ①." T. P．Say. ① Actually, it should be champagne for wedding. "Easy," Versh said. "Where did you get that?" "Taken in the cellar." T. P．Say. "Ouch." "Easy," Versh said. "Somewhere in the cellar." "Everywhere," said T.P.He laughed even crazier. "There's more than a hundred bottles. There's more than a million bottles. Watch out, nigger, I'm going to yell." Quentin said, "Drag him up." Versh dragged me up. "Drink this, Benji," Quentin said.The glass is hot. ② "Stop shouting, hurry up." Quentin said. "Drink this down." ②What Quentin gave Benji was probably hot coffee for sobering up. "Show soda." T. P．Say. "Let me drink, Master Quentin." "You shut up," Versh said. "Master Quentin is going to knock you out." "Hold him, Versh," Quentin said. They held me down.It was running hot on my chin and shirt. "Drink it," said Quentin.They hold my head.The thing was hot in my stomach, and I couldn't help it again.I was screaming now, something happened in my stomach, and I screamed harder, and they just held me down until my stomach calmed down.Then I stopped.The thing was still wandering around, and then some figures appeared. "Open the barn door, Versh." They walked slowly. "Put those empty sacks on the floor." They walked faster, faster, I might say. "Okay, now lift his feet." They walked on, smooth and bright.I heard T.P. laughing.I followed them up the bright hillside. ① ①In fact, Benji was gradually falling asleep on the sack at this time, and he felt dimly as if he was going up the mountain.The feeling at that time only reminded him of that day in 1898 when he was in the "present". At the top of the hill Versh put me down. "Come up, Quentin," he called, looking back down the hill.Quentin was still standing by the ditch.He was throwing stones into the shadowed ditch. "Let the fool stay there," said Katie.She took my hand and we went on, past the barn and into the yard gate.There was a toad on the brick walkway. It was crouching in the middle of the road. Katie stepped over its head and pulled me on. "Come on, Maury," she said.It was still squatting there, and Jason poked it with his toe. "It'll give you a big wart," Versh said.Epilepsy Toad jumped away. "Come on, Maury," said Kitty. "We have guests at home tonight," Versh said. "How do you know that?" Katie said. "The lights are all on," Versh said. "There's a light in every window." "The way I see it, you can leave all the lights on without company if you like," said Katie. "There must be a visitor," Versh said. "You'd better go in by the back door and sneak upstairs." "I'm not afraid," said Katie. "I'm going to walk carelessly into the drawing room where the guests are sitting." "Your dad will beat you up if you do that," Versh said. "I'm not afraid," said Katie. "I'm going to slop into the living room. I'm going to slap into the dining room for dinner." "Is there a place for you to sit?" Versh said. "I'll just sit in Big Muddy's seat," Katie said. "She's eating in bed now." "I'm hungry." Jason said.He passed us and started running down the aisle.With his hands in his pockets, he fell.Versh went over and helped him up. "You take your hands out of your pockets and you're safe to walk," Versh said. "You're so fat, when you're about to fall, you pull your hands out of your pockets to stabilize yourself, but it's too late." Father stood at the kitchen steps. "Where's Quentin," he said. "He's coming down the trail," Versh said.Quentin was walking slowly.His white shirt looked over in a haze of whiteness. "Oh." Father said.The light shone down the steps and fell on him. "Katie and Quentin just had a water fight," Jason said. We wait. "Really?" said the father.Quentin came over, and my father said, "You are eating in the kitchen tonight." He bent down and picked me up, and the light that fell down the steps fell on me, and I could watch Kay from a height. Dee, Jason, Quentin and Versh.Father turned and walked up the steps. "You need to be quiet, though," he said. "Why should we be quiet, Dad," Katie said. "Are there any guests at home?" "Yes." Father said. "I told you there were guests at home," Versh said. "You didn't say that," Katie said. "I was the one who said there was a guest. Anyway, that's what I meant." "Stop arguing." Father said.They fell silent, my father opened the door, and we walked across the back porch into the kitchen.Dilsey was in the kitchen, and my father put me in a chair, put my bib around it, and pushed the chair up to the table.There are steaming hot meals on the table. "You all follow Dilsey's lead now," said Father. "Dilsey, tell them to keep their voices as quiet as possible." "Yes, sir," said Dilsey.Father is gone. "Remember, it's Dilsey's turn now," he added behind our backs.I turned my face to the food.The heat rushed straight to my face. "Leave everyone under my command tonight, Dad," said Katie. "I don't want it," Jason said. "I want to hear from Dilsey." "If Papa says it, then you have to listen to me," Katie said. "Let them listen to me." "I don't." Jason said. "I don't want to listen to you." "Stop arguing." Father said. "You'll do what Katie says, then. Dilsey, take 'em up the back stairs when they're done eating." "All right, sir," said Dilsey. "Come on," Katie said. "Now, I think you all have to listen to me." "Shut up all of you," Dilsey said. "You guys have to be quiet tonight." "Why do we have to be quiet tonight?" Katie asked in a low voice. "Don't ask any more questions," Dilsey said. "You'll find out when the time comes." She brought my bowl.The bowl was steaming hot, scratching my face itchy. "Come here, Versh," Dilsey said. "What time is it, Dilsey," said Katie. "That's Sunday," said Quentin. "Why don't you even understand this?" ①The original text of "When Time" in the previous sentence is "Lawds owntime", which can be understood as "Sunday". "Shh," Dilsey said, "didn't Mr. Jason say you all had to be quiet. Well, let's have dinner. Come on, Versh. Get his spoon." Versh's hand Came over with a spoon and dipped the spoon into the bowl.The spoon rises to my mouth.The hot air tickled into my mouth.At this moment, everyone stopped, you looked at me, I looked at you, and there was no sound, and then we heard it again, and I started to cry. "What's that sound?" Katie said.She pressed her hand on mine. "That's Mom," Quentin said.The spoon came, I took another bite, and then I cried again. "Shut up," said Katie.But I didn't stop, so she came and put her arms around me.Dilsey went and shut both doors so we couldn't hear the sound. "Okay, don't cry," Katie said.I stopped my voice and continued to eat.Quentin wasn't eating, Jason was eating all the time. "That's Mom," Quentin said.He stood up. "You sit down," Dilsey said. "They've got guests there, and you're all covered in mud. You can't go. Sit down for me too, Katie, and finish your meal." "She was crying just now," Quentin said. "Looks like somebody's singing," said Katie. "Isn't it, Dilsey?" "You all give me a good supper, Mr. Jason ordered," Dilsey said. "You'll know when the time comes." Katie returned to her seat. "Didn't I tell you it was a dance?" he said. "He ate it all," Versh said. "Bring him his bowl," Dilsey said.The bowl was gone again. "Dilsey," Katie said, "Quentin isn't eating. Doesn't he have to take orders from me?" "Eat quickly, Quentin," Dilsey said. "Eat quickly, all of you, and clear the kitchen for me." "I can't take it," said Quentin. "I say you must eat if you have to," said Katie. "Is that so, Dilsey?" The bowl came to me steaming hot again, Versh's hand inserted the spoon into the bowl, and the hot, itchy, crispy steam entered my mouth. "I can't eat any more," said Quentin. "Big Muddy's sick. How can they have a dance?" "They can drive it downstairs," Katie said. "She can go back to the stairs to take a peek, and I'll do the same when I change into pajamas later." "Mother was crying just now," Quentin said. "She was crying, wasn't she, Dilsey." "Don't you bother me forever, kid," Dilsey said. "After you finished eating, I still have to cook for those grown-ups." After a while, even Jason finished eating, and he started crying. "Okay, it's your turn to cry again," Dilsey said. "He's been doing it every night since Big Muddy got sick and he couldn't sleep with her," said Katie. "What a crybaby." "I'm going to tell Mom and Dad," Jason said. He is still crying. "You've told me," Katie said. "You have nothing more to tell." "You should all go to bed," Dilsey said.She came over, lifted me out of the chair, and wiped my face and hands with a hot cloth. "Wilsh, can you sneak 'em up the back stairs, okay, Jason, stop whining like that." "It's too early to go to bed," Katie said. "No one has ever put us to bed so early." "You're gonna go to bed so early tonight," Dilsey said. "Your father said to go upstairs as soon as dinner was over. You heard it yourself." "He said he wanted everyone to listen to me," Katie said. "I don't want to hear from you," Jason said. "You must listen," Katie said. "Okay, pay attention. You all have to follow my orders." "Tell them to take it easy, Versh," Dilsey said. "You all have to play lightly, get it?" "Why do we have to play lightly tonight," said Katie. "Your mother is not well," Dilsey said. "Now you all follow Versh." "I told you it was mother crying," Quentin said.Versh picked me up and opened the door to the back porch.We come out and Versh closes the door and it's all dark.I could smell Versh, I could touch him, "Everyone be quiet. Let's not go upstairs. Mr. Jason said to tell everyone to go upstairs. He said to tell everyone to follow my lead. I don't want to Command you. But he said you should listen to me. He said it, Quentin." I can touch Versh's head.I can hear everyone venting. "He said it, Versh. That's it, that's right. Well, I've decided we're going to play outside for a while. Come on." Versh opened the door and we all walked out. We go down the steps. "I mean, we'd better go to Versh's cabin, where we can't be heard," Katie said.Versh put me down, Katie took my hand, and we walked down the brick path. ① Refers to the servants of Compson's servants. "Come on," said Katie. "That toad is gone. It must have hopped into the garden by this time. Maybe we'll see another one." Roscus came with two pails of milk.He walked on.Quentin did not follow.He sat on the kitchen steps.We came to Versh's cabin.I love the smell of Versh's house. ② There is a fire in the house, T. P．Crouching in front of the fire, with the back of his shirt exposed, he added logs to the fire to keep it going. ②The above is about what happened on the day of Damdi's death.Then, Bengui associated Versh's hut to the scene of living in the servant's room after the news of Quentin's suicide reached his home in June 1910. Then I got up, T. P．Get dressed and we go into the kitchen to eat.Dilsey was singing, and I cried, so she stopped singing. ③It was because she was crying after hearing the news of Quentin's suicide. "Don't let him into the big house just yet," Dilsey said. "We can't go that way." T. P．Say. We went to play in the ditch. "We can't go around that way." T. P．Say. "Didn't you hear Mommy say you can't go?" Dilsey was singing in the kitchen and I was crying. "Don't cry," said T.P. "Come on. Let's go to the barn." Roskus milking the cows in the barn.He was milking with one hand and humming.A few birds perched on the barn gate and watched him.A bird flew down and ate the dregs with the cows.I watched Roscus milking, T. P．Go and feed the "little queen" and "prince".The calf is kept in a pigsty.It rubbed its nose against the barbed wire and barked. "T.P.," said Roskus. T． P．In the barn, he answered, "What's the matter, Dad." A Huan poked his head out of the gate, because T.P. Su didn't feed him fodder. "You're done with that," said Roskus. "You have to come and milk. I can't use my right hand at all." T． P．Come here for the milking. "Why don't you go and see the doctor," said T. P. "What's the use of a doctor," said Roskus. "It doesn't work in this place anyway." "What's the matter with this place," said T.P. "This place is inauspicious," said Roskus. "When you're done milking, shut the calf in. This place is inauspicious. said Roskus. The fire flashed behind him and Versh, flitted across his and Versh's faces. Dill Sean put me to bed. The bed smelled like T.P. Same, I like the smell. ①This is the situation last night, in the servant's room. "You know what," Dilsey said. "Could it be that you are stupid." "What a fool," said Roskus. "Isn't this omen lying on the bed? Hasn't this omen been seen clearly for fifteen years?" "Forget it," Dilsey said. "Anyway, you and your family are not at a disadvantage, are you? Welsh has become a strong laborer, and Frony has made you a big man to marry. When the rheumatism stops tormenting you, T.P. Now, I can take over your job." ②Froni is the daughter of Roscus and Dilsey, and the mother of Luster. "That's two." Roskus said. "I still have to go to Shangrao, I have seen the omen, haven't you seen it too?" ③Refers to the death of Da Mudi and Quentin's suicide. "I heard a night owl calling the night before." T. P．Said, "Don't even go to supper. Don't even take a step out of the barn; when it's dark he yells, and Versh hears it." ① dog name. "It's not just one who's going to give up," Dilsey said. "Show me who is immortal, thank you Jesus." "Death alone is good enough," said Roskus. "I know what you're thinking," Dilsey said. "You'll be unlucky to say that name, unless you sit up with him when he cries.②" ②A kind of superstition of black people, they think it can save disasters. "This place is just unlucky," Roskus said. "I kind of saw it early on, and when they changed his name, I figured it out." "Stop it," Dilsey said.She pulled the quilt up.The smell of the quilt is similar to that of T. P．The same as the body. "Don't talk, let him fall asleep first." "I saw the signs," said Roskus. "Omen. T.P. has to take all your work," Dilsey said. ③T.P., take him and little Quentin to the back cabin, let them play with Luster, Frony can watch them, and you, help your father to work. ③Bengui recalled here, thinking of Dilsey's similar words on the day of Mr. Compson's death in 1912. We finished our meal. T． P．Pick up little Quentin, and we will go to T. P．hut to go.Luster was playing in the mud. T． P．Put little Quentin down, she is also playing on the mud.Luster had some empty spools, and he and Quentin fought, and Quentin got the spools.Luster was crying, and Frony came and gave Luster an empty can to play with, and then I got the spool, and little Quentin hit me, and I cried. "Don't cry," said Frony. "Don't you feel ashamed to grab a little doll thing." She took the spool from me and gave it back to little Quentin. "Well, don't cry," said Frony. "Don't cry, do you hear me?" "Don't cry," said Frony. "It's time to whip you up, your bones are itching." She dragged Luster and Little Quentin up. "Come here," she said.We come to the barn. T． P．milking.Roskus sat on a wooden box. "What's the matter with him now," said Roskus. "You'll have to keep him here," said Frony. "He's fighting with the baby again. Stealing their stuff. You follow T.P. and see if you can be quiet for a while." "Now wipe the teats clean," said Roskus. "That heifer you milked last winter stopped giving milk. If this one doesn't, they'll have no milk." Dilsey was singing. ① ①Benji always referred to the cries of mourning for the dead as singing.It was the same when Big Mudi died. "Don't go there," said T.P. "Don't you know Mommy said you can't go over there?" They are singing. "Come on." T. P．Say. "Let's go play with little Quentin and Luster. Come on." Little Quentin and Luster were playing on the dirt field in front of T.P.'s cabin.There was a fire in the house, which rose and fell by turns, before which Roskus sat like a black shadow. "That's three, for God's sake," Roskus said. "I told you about it two years ago. This place is inauspicious." "Then why don't you go," Dilsey said.She is undressing me. "You've got Versh thinking about going to Memphis with all your inauspicious chatter. You should be satisfied now." ②A large city in the southwestern tip of Tennessee, very close to the northern part of the Mississippi, where the story of this book takes place. "I hope it's just that bad luck for Versh, that's all," said Roskus. Frony walked in. "Have you all done your work yet," Dilsey said. "T.P. is over soon, too," said Frony. "Miss Caroline wants you to put little Quentin to bed." "I'll just go as fast as I can when I'm done," Dilsey said. "After all these years, she should also know that I don't have wings." "Didn't I say so?" Roskus said. "A family is not even allowed to mention the name of one of their own children, ① this place is definitely not auspicious." ① Katie gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, but was abandoned by her husband.Mrs. Compson was ashamed and refused to let Katie come home, not even to mention her name. "Stop it," Dilsey said. "Do you want to wake him up and make him cry?" "What kind of a thing is it to have a child who doesn't even know their mother's name," Roskus said. "You don't have to worry about her," Dilsey said. "The children in their family were all raised by me, so what if I hold another one, stop talking nonsense. He wants to sleep, let him fall asleep quickly."