Chapter 4 April 7, 1928 (Wednesday)

April 7, 1928 (Wednesday) "Just name them," said Frony. "He doesn't know anyone's name." "Tell me and see if he understands," Dilsey said. "You said it while he was asleep, and I bet he could hear you too." "He knows a lot more than you think," said Roskus. "He knows when everyone's hour comes, as a hound can tell the game. If he could talk, he could tell you when his own hour is, and yours or yours. My hour." "You get Luster out of that bed, Mommy," said Frony. "The boy will bewitch him." "Shut up," Dilsey said. "Why are you so dazed, why are you listening to Roskus' nonsense; go to bed, Benji."

Dilsey pushed me and I climbed into bed, Luster was already on it.He slept soundly.Dilsey brought two long planks and put them between Luster and me. "You sleep on your side," Dilsey said. "Little Luster, don't press him down." You can't go yet, T.P. said.You wait. ① ①Bengui thinks of his father's hearse going to the cemetery the next day. We watched the carriages drive away from the corner of the great house. "Quick." T. P．Say.He picked up little Quentin and we ran around the corner of the fence to see them go by. "He's gone," T. P．Say. "See that one with the windows. Take a good look." He lay there.You take a good look at him.

Come on, said Luster, ②I'm going to take this ball home, where I can't lose it.No, sir, this can't be given to you; if those people see you with the ball, they'll say you stole it, stop humming, please.If you can't give, you can't give.What's the use of you taking it.You can't play ball. ② Return to "Current". Frony and T.P. were playing on the dirt floor by the door. ③T． P．There is a bottle with fireflies in it. ③Benji heard Luster talk about "playing ball", and recalled the scene where Katie suggested that everyone go to Versh's cabin to play on the night of Big Muddy's death.

"Why are you all out again?" Frony said. "We have visitors," said Katie. "Daddy says the kids will listen to me tonight. I think you and T.P. must listen to me too." "I don't listen to you," Jason said. "Frony and T.P. don't have to listen to you." "I told them to listen," Katie said. "Maybe I'm not going to tell them to listen." "T.P. doesn't listen to anyone," said Frony. "Has their funeral started yet?" "What's a funeral?" Jason said. "Didn't Mommy tell you not to tell them?" Versh said.

"Funerals are all about crying," Frony said. "They cried for two days when Miss Bella Clay died." ① Dilsey's friend, a black woman. They cry in Dilsey's house. ②Dilsey is crying.When Dilsey was crying, Luster said, Don't make any noise, so we were all silent, but then I started crying, and Blue-haired meowed under the kitchen steps.Then Dilsey stopped crying and we stopped crying and screaming. ②Bengui listened to Floni talking about "crying", and recalled the situation when the old black Roscus died. ③ dog name. "Oh." Katie said. ④ "That's a black thing. White people don't hold funerals."

"Mommy told us not to tell them, Frony," Versh said. "Don't tell them anything," said Katie. Dilsey was crying, and the voice came over, and I was crying too, and Bluefur was howling at the bottom of the steps. ⑤ Luster, Frony called from the window, leading them to the barn.I can't cook in such a mess.And that smelly dog.Take them all. ④Back to the night when Damu Di died. ⑤ The day Roscus died. I'm not going, Luster said.Maybe I'll see my grandfather there.I saw him last night, waving his arms in the barn. "I'd like to ask why white people don't have funerals," said Frony. ①"White people are going to die too. Isn't your grandma dying just like black people?"

①The day that Damdi passed away. "Dogs are the ones that die," said Katie. "Nancy fell in a ditch that time, and Roscus shot and killed her, and then some old vultures came and tore her skin off." The bones were scattered outside the ditch, and in the gloomy ditch there were some black creeping vines, which stretched out under the moonlight, like some motionless dead people.Then they all stopped moving, and the surroundings were dark. When I woke up and opened my eyes again, I heard my mother's voice, heard the footsteps walking away in a hurry, and I smelled that smell. ②Then the appearance of the room appeared, but I closed my eyes.But I did not fall asleep.I smell that. T.P. undid the pins on my quilt.

②Bengui also thought of the night his father died in 1912 when he woke up and smelled "death". "Shut up," he said. "shh-" But I smelled it. T． P．He dragged me up and hurriedly helped me get dressed. "Shut up, Benji," he said. "Let's go to my cottage. You like to come to our house, don't you, and Frony's there. Be quiet. Hush." He tied my shoes, put the hat on my head, and we walked out of the room.A light was on at the head of the stairs.From down the corridor came the mother's voice. "Shhh, Benji," said T.P. "We'll be out right away."

A door opened, and now the smell intensified, and a head poked out of it.That's not the father.Father is sick and lying in it. "Will you take him outside?" "We're just going outside." T. P．Say.Dilsey was coming up the stairs. "Shut up," she said. "Be quiet. Take him to our house, T.P.. Let Frony make his bed. You all take good care of him. Be quiet, Benji. Go with T.P." She went to the place where her mother made her voice. "Better let him stay there." It wasn't the father who spoke.He closed the door, but I can still smell the smell.

Let's go downstairs.The stairs lead down into the darkness, T. P．Taking my hand, we walked out the door into the darkness outside.Dan'er was sitting on the ground in the backyard, screaming. "It smelled too." T. P．Say. "Do you know that too?" We go down the steps, our shadows fall on the steps. "I forgot your coat," said T.P. "You should have a coat. But I don't want to go back and get it." Dan'er was screaming. "Stop humming," said T.P.Our shadow moves, but Dan's shadow doesn't move, but when it croaks, the shadow croaks too.

"I can't take your country with you yelling like that." T. P．Say. "You were enough to be a nuisance before, and now you have this bullfrog voice. Come on." We dragged our own shadows along the brick path.The pigsty smelled like pigs.The cow was standing in the clearing, chewing on us.Dan'er screamed again. "You're going to wake up the whole town," said T.P. "Can't you stop shouting?" We saw A Huan grazing by the river ditch.The moon was shining on the water when we reached the edge of the ditch. "No, sir," said T. P. "It's too close here. We can't stop here. Let's go. Well, look at you. Your whole leg is wet. Step over, come this way," Dan yelled again. In the rustling grass, the small ditch appeared.Those white bones were scattered around the black vine branches. "Okay." T. P．Say, "You can yell if you want. There's night and twenty acres of pasture ahead of you, and it doesn't matter how loud you yell." T.P. lay down in the ditch, and I sat down and looked at the bones where the old vultures used to peck at Nancy, and then slowly and heavily flapped their black wings from the ditch. fly out. It was still on me when we came up here earlier, Luster said. ①I showed it to you, but you saw it too.I just stood here and pulled it out of my pocket to show you. ① Return to "Current".Luster was still looking for his coin. "Did you think the old vulture would tear up the skin of Big Mutt," said Katie. ②"You are crazy." ②Back to the night when Damu Di died. "You're a big bad," Jason said.He began to cry. "You're a big jerk," Katie said.Jason was crying.He stuck both hands in his pockets. "Jason will be a rich man when he grows up," Versh said. "He never let go of the money." Jason was crying. "Look at you making him cry forever again," said Katie. "Don't cry, Jason. How can the old eagle fly into Da Mudi's room. Father won't let them go. Will you let the old eagle come and undress you, okay, don't cry It's gone." Jason stopped crying. "Frony said it was a funeral," he said. "Who said that, no," said Katie. "It's a dance. Frony knows shit. He wants your firefly, T.P. Give him a while." T.P. handed me the bottle with the fireflies in it. "I said if we went around and under the parlor window we'd see something," said Katie. "Then you'll believe me." "I already know," said Frony. "I don't need to look." "Shut up, Frony," Versh said. "Mommy really wants to slap you." "Then what are you talking about," Katie said. "Anyway, I know," said Frony. " "Come on," Katie said. "Let's go around to the front of the house." We set off. "T.P. wants his fireflies," said Frony. "Let him hold it a little longer, T.P.," Katie said. "We'll pay you back." "You never catch fireflies yourself," said Frony. "If I let you and T.P. go too, you let him take it," Katie said. "No one has ever looked after me and T.P. are under your command," Frony said. "If I say you don't have to listen, let him have it," Katie said. "That's all right," said Frony. "Let him hold it, T.P.. Let's see how they cry." "They don't cry," said Katie. "I told you there was a dance. Were they crying, Versh." "How do we know what they're doing when we're standing here all the time?" Versh said. "Let's go," Katie said. "Frony and T.P. don't have to listen to me, everyone else does. You better pick him up, Versh. It's getting dark." Versh picked me up and we rounded the corner of the kitchen. We looked out from the corner of the house and could see the lights of the carriage coming down the drive. ①T·P·Turn back to the cellar door and open the door. ①Back to the day of Katie's wedding in 1910, but before T.P. and Benji got drunk. Do you know what's in there, said T.P.There is soda.I have seen Mr. Jason come out from below with his arms full.You wait here for a while. T． P．He walked over and looked through the kitchen door.Dilsey said, what are you peeping at.Where is Benji? He's just outside, T. P．Say. Go see him, Dilsey said.Just don't let him into the mansion. All right, you, T. P．Say.Have they started yet. You go and take care of that kid and don't let him in, Dilsey said.I'm too busy with the work at hand. A snake crawled out from under the house. ②Jason said he was not afraid of snakes, Katie said he must be, but she wasn't, Versh said they were both afraid, Katie said shut up, her tone was very much like her father's. ②The night that Damdi passed away. You can't shout now, T. P．Say. ③Would you like some of this kind of sand to show the water? ③The day Katie got married. This stuff tickles my nose and eyes. If you don't want a drink, give it to me, said T.P.OK, got it.We might as well get another bottle of it while no one is looking after us now.Don't make a sound. We stopped under the tree outside the living room window. ①Wilsh put me down on the wet grass.This place is cold.There were lights in all the windows. ①The night that Damdi passed away. "Big Muddy's in that room," said Katie. "She's sick every day now. When she recovers, we can go out for a picnic." "Anyway, I know what it was," said Frony. The trees are rustling, and the grass is also rustling. "The one beyond that is where we slept when we had the measles," said Katie. "Where did you and T.P. get the measles, Frony?" "Where we sleep every day, I suppose," said Frony. "They haven't started yet," Katie said. They're about to start, T.P. said. ②You stand here first, let me move that crate here, so we can see what's in the window.Come on, let's drink this bottle of Sashi water.After drinking it, it was like a night owl was growling in my stomach. ② Katie's wedding day. After we drank the Shashi water, T. P．Pushed the empty bottle into the grating, pushed it under the room, and walked away.I could hear them in the living room, and I clasped my hands to the wall. T.P. is dragging a wooden box towards me.He fell and laughed.He lay on the ground, laughing loudly at the grass.He got up and dragged the box under the window, trying not to laugh. "I'm afraid I'm going to yell." T. P．Say. "You stand on the crates and see if they start." "They haven't started yet because the band hasn't come yet," Katie said. "They're not going to have a band at all," Frony said. "How do you know?" Katie said. "Of course I know," said Frony. "You don't really know anything," said Katie.She went to the tree. "Push me up, Versh." "Your dad told you not to climb trees," Versh said. "That was a long time ago," said Katie. "I think he forgot even himself. Besides, he told me that I would be in command tonight. Didn't he say I would be in command?" "I don't follow your orders," Jason said. "Frony and T.P. don't listen either." "Push me up, Versh," Katie said. "Okay," Versh said. "You'll be the one getting the whip from now on. It's none of my business." He went and pushed Katie onto the first fork.We all looked at the puddle of mud on her underpants.Then we lost sight of her.We could hear the trembling of the trees. "Mr. Jason said he'd whip you if you broke a branch from this tree," Versh said. "I'm going to report on her too," Jason said. The tree no longer trembled.We looked up at the motionless branches. "What do you see," Frony whispered. I see them. ②Then I saw Katie, with flowers in her hair, and a long white veil that shone like a wind.Katie Katie. ①Recall from "beginning" to another "beginning".It was the scene of the night when Damdi died again. ② Katie's wedding day. "Shut up." T. P．Say. "They'll hear you. Come down." He pulled me down, Katie.I clasped my hands to the wall.Katie. T． P．Pull me down. "Shut up," he said. "Shut up. Come up here." He pulled me forward hard.Katie. "Hush up, Benji. Do you want them to hear you? Come on, let's go get some more sass and come back and see, as long as you don't make a fuss. We'd better have another bottle of it, or else We'd both be yelling. We'd say it was Dan's drink." Mr. Quentin kept saying how clever the dog was, and we could say he was a Sassie-drinking dog. " Moonlight climbed up the cellar steps.We drank some Sashi water again. "You know what I want," said T.P. "I want a bear to come in through this cellar door. You know what I'm going to do. I'm going to go straight up and spit in its eyes. Give me the bottle and gag it, or else I'm really going to yell." T.P. fell down.He laughed, and the cellar door and the moonlight jumped open, and something hit me. "Quickly stop shouting." T. P．said, trying not to laugh. "My God, they're going to hear us. Get up," said T.P. "Get up, Benji, hurry up." He was shaking and laughing, and I struggled to get up.In the moonlight, the cellar steps leading up to the hill, T. P．Down the hillside, in the moonlight, I ran out and slammed my head against the fence, with T. P. loping behind me, yelling "Hush, hush."Then he laughed and fell into the flowers, and I ran and bumped into the wooden box.But when I was trying my best to climb up the wooden box, the wooden box jumped away and hit me on the back of the head, and a cry came out of my throat.Then there was another cry, and I didn't get up at all, and it let out another cry, and I began to cry. T． P．Come pull me, I keep making noises in my throat.It kept making noises, and I couldn't tell if I was crying, and then T. P. fell down on top of me, and he laughed, and my throat kept making noises, and Quentin used Kick T. P． Katie put her arms around me, and her shining veil wrapped around me, and I couldn't smell the tree at all, and I began to cry. Benjy, Katie said, Benjy. ①She put her arms around me again, but I ducked away. "What's the matter with you, Benji," she said. "Don't you like this hat?" She took off her hat and came closer, but I avoided it. ①Bengui could not smell the fragrance of trees, so he thought of the scene when Katie put on adult clothes and put on perfume for the first time when she was fourteen years old. "Benji," she said, "what's up, Benji. What did Katie do?" "He doesn't like your stinking clothes," Jason said. "You think you're grown up, don't you. You think you're bigger than anyone else, don't you. Pretty!" "Shut up," Katie said, "you rotten little bastard, Benji." "Just because you're fourteen, you think you're grown up, don't you," Jason said. "You think you're great. Don't you." "Stop crying, Benji," Katie said. "You're going to wake Mom. Don't cry." But I was crying and screaming, she walked away, I followed her, she stopped on the stairs waiting for me, and I stopped too. "What the hell do you want, Benji," Katie said. "Tell Katie, and she'll do it for you. Speak." "Cadance," said the mother. "Hey, Mom," Katie said. "Why did you mess with him," said the mother. "Bring him in." We went into my mother's room, and she was sick, lying in bed with a cloth over her forehead. "What's going on again," said the mother. "Benjamin." "Benji," Katie said.She came closer again, but I dodged again. "You must have insulted him," said the mother. "Can't you not mess with him and let me be quiet for a while. You give him the box, and when it's over, please go away and let him play alone for a while." Katie fetched the box and put it on the floor, and she opened it.It's full of stars.When I don't move, they don't move either.When I moved, they trembled and shone brightly.I stopped crying. Then I heard Katie go away, and I cried again. "Benjamin," said my mother. "Come here." I walked to the door. "I'm calling you, Benjamin," said my mother. "What's the matter?" said the father. "Where are you going?" "Take him downstairs and get someone to watch over him, Jason," said my mother. "You know I'm sick, but that's why." We walked out of the room, and my father closed the door behind him. "T.P.," he said. "Sir," T. P. agreed from downstairs. "Benji's coming downstairs," said Father. "You go with T.P." I went to the shower and asked the door.I could hear the rush of running water. "Benji," said T. P. from downstairs. I could hear the rush of running water.I listened attentively. "Benji," said T. P. from downstairs. I listen to the sound of running water. I couldn't hear the rattling, and then Katie opened the door. "There you are, Benji," she said.She looked at me, and I went up to her, and she put her arms around me. "You found Katie again, didn't you," she said. "Did you think Katie escaped?" Katie smelled like a tree again. We went into Katie's room.She sat down in front of the mirror.She stopped what she was doing and stared at me. "What's up, Benji. What's up," she said. "You mustn't cry. Katie isn't going; look at this," she said, and she took a bottle, uncorked it, and held it up under my nose. "It's fragrant, smell it, it smells good." I dodged, my crying didn't stop, she was looking at me with the bottle in her hand. "Oh." she said.She put the bottle down and came over and put her arms around me. "That's what it is. You want to tell Katie, but you can't. You want to, but you can't, can you. Of course, Katie doesn't use it anymore. Of course, Katie doesn't use it anymore." .You wait, let me get dressed." Katie dressed and picked up the bottle again, and we went downstairs into the kitchen. "Dilsey," Katie said. "Benji has a present for you." She bent down and put the bottle in my hand. "Okay, you give it to Dilsey now." Katie held out my hand and Dilsey took the bottle. "Oh, that's amazing," Dilsey said. "My darling actually sent Dilsey a bottle of perfume. Look, Roscus." Katie smelled like a tree. "We don't like perfume ourselves," said Katie. She smells like a tree. "Okay, come on," Dilsey said. ①"You are too old to sleep with other people. You are a big boy now. You are thirteen years old. You are old enough to sleep alone in Uncle Maury's room." Dilsey said. ①Back to the night in 1908 when Bengui delivered the love letter for Uncle Maury alone. Uncle Maury was ill.His eyes were sick, and so was his mouth. ②Wilsh carries his dinner upstairs on a tray to his room. ② Earlier that night.Patterson snatched the letter from Benji and beat Maury after discovering Uncle Maury's affair with his wife.The "disease" here refers to "swelling". "Maury said he was going to shoot the rogue," said the father. "I told him, "If he really does it, it's better not to mention it in front of Patterson. "Father took a sip of wine. "Jason," said my mother. "Shoot who, Pa," said Quentin, "why did Uncle Maury shoot him?" "Because he can't stand a little joke on him," said the father. "Jason," said my mother. "How can you say that. You'll sit there laughing while Maury gets ambushed and shot." "Wouldn't it be better if Maury didn't let himself be ambushed," said the father. "Shoot who, Father," said Quentin. "Who is Uncle Maury going to hit?" "No one," said the father, "I don't even have a pistol here." The mother began to cry: "If you think Mao Lai eats your food for nothing, why don't you show some manliness and tell him to his face. Why do you have to laugh at him behind his back in front of the children?" "Of course I don't dislike him." Father said. "I like him too late. He's a valuable example of my racial superiority. I wouldn't trade a good pair of horses for a Maury. You know why, Quin Ding." "I don't know, father," Quentin said. "Et ego in areaia, and hay in Latin I forget," said the father. "Nothing, nothing," he said. "I was only joking." He took a sip of his wine, put the glass down, and walked over to put his hand on his mother's shoulder. ①This Latin phrase means: "Even if I have arrived in Arcadia." Arcadia was a place in ancient Greece, which was later described as a place with a pastoral and simple life.What Mr. Compson meant by this was that if he had good horses he would have to find hay to feed them in Arcadia; "This is not a joke," said the mother. "My natal family is of exactly the same noble birth as yours. It's just that Maury's health is not very good." "Of course." Father said. "Ill health is certainly a determining factor in the lives of all. Born in pain, raised in sickness, and dead in decay. Versh." "Sir," Versh said from behind my chair. "Take this decanter and fill me with wine." "Go get Dilsey again and tell her to take Benjamin to bed," said the mother. "You're a big boy," Dilsey said. ①"Katie doesn't like to share your bed with you anymore. Come on, stop arguing and go to sleep." The room was out of sight, but I didn't stop crying, and then the room appeared again, Dill West walked back and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at me. ① What happened later that night. "Be a good boy and don't make a scene, please," Dilsey said. "You won't, will you. Wait for me, then." She walked away.The door opening was empty, and there was nothing.Then Katie appeared. "Don't cry," said Katie. "I am coming." I silenced and Dilsey pushed back the coverlet and Katie got between the coverlet and the blanket.She didn't take off her dressing gown. "Okay," she said. "I'm here." Dilsey took a blanket, covered her body, and tucked her in again. "He'll be asleep in a minute," Dilsey said. "I'll keep the light on in your room." "Okay," Katie said. She pushed her head next to mine on the pillow. "Good night, Dilsey." " "Good night, baby," Dilsey said.The room went dark.Katie smelled of trees.