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Uncle Noah
UNCLE NOAH, Miss Becky's pleasure-loving son, like Un-
cle Lum, his older brother, loved to read Shakespeare. He
was tall and thin and he moved with great grace. His sharp,
black eyes sometimes frightened me. They seemed to be
reading my thoughts, which were not always complimentary
to him. One day he looked at me searchingly and said, "Em-
my, I don't want you to grow up at Plank and this God-
forsaken place. It's too late for me to get out of here, but I
want you to go somewhere and be somebody." His piercing
eyes upset me. Hurriedly I answered, "Yes, Uncle Noah, yes,
I'll surely go somewhere and be somebody."
Uncle Noah liked to ride fast horses, and while the family
was still in a state of semi-poverty which had engulfed them
following the Civil War, he managed somehow to keep a
thoroughbred or two sheltered in the stable. He sat in the
house when he was not riding the horses or reading books.
Once when I went into the room where he was thumbing the
pages of one of his books, he looked at me, held up the
book, smiled and said, "Emmy, take a good look at this book;
a great man wrote it. His name was Shakespeare."
When Aunt Chlo rang the dinner bell, Uncle Noah would
walk slowly beside Miss Becky down the covered walk that
lay between the main house and the cook house. At the head
of the dining table he would draw out a chair for Miss Becky
and stand there until she was comfortably seated. There
were only two chairs at the long table, one at each end. At the
sides of the table there were low wooden benches. Although
the chairs were widely separated, Uncle Noah sat in the one
opposite Miss Becky. After we were all seated we bowed
our heads while Miss Becky asked God's blessing on the
food we were about to eat, and on the family. Then AuntAunt [41] Puss
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Emery, Emma Wilson. Aunt Puss & Others: Old Days in the Piney Woods, book, 1969; Austin, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38305/m1/55/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.