“‘So there was a old woman told my mammy once that if a woman showed her belly to the full moon after she had done caught, it would be a gal.’”
—William Faulkner, Spotted Horses, 1940.
“‘So there was a old woman told my mammy once that if a woman showed her belly to the full moon after she had done caught, it would be a gal.’”
—William Faulkner, Spotted Horses, 1940.
hmmm …. did this old woman have any name suggestions?
The name is Eula. ‘I could lay my ear to her belly and hear Eula kicking and scrouging like all get-out, feeling the moon.’