Day nine 《 chapter one》

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We were in luck last night. Just before we got home that new stallion Ma got in Kentucky last month was brought in, and the place was in a stew
The big brute-he's a grand horse, Scarlett; you must tell your pa to come over and see him right away， he'd already bitten a hunk out of his groom on the way down here。

and he'd trampled two of Ma‘s darkies who met the train at Jonesboro . And just before we got home, he'd about kicked the stable down and half-killed Strawberry, Ma's old stallion. When we got home, Ma was out in the stable with a sackful of sugar smoothing him down and doing it mighty well, too. The darkies were hanging from the rafters ，popeyed，they were so scared, but Ma was talking to the horse like he was folks and he was eating out of her hand. There ain't nobody like Ma with a horse, And when she saw us she said: In Heaven's name, what are you four doing home again? You're worse than the plagues of Egypt’And then the horse began snorting and rearing and she said: ‘Get out of here! Can't you see he's nervous, the big darling? I'li tend to you four in the morning!So we went to bed. And this morning we got away before she could catch us and left Boyd to handle her。
“Do you suppose she'll hit Boyd? "Scarlett, like the rest of the County，could never get used to the way small Mrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it。