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- The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands.
- Soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes. They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed. The women, wearing faded house dresses and sweaters, came shortly after their menfolk.
- Mr. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, held the black box securely on the stool until Mr. Summers hadstirred the papers thoroughly with his hand. Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten ordiscarded, Mr. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations.
- Just as Mr. Summers finally left off talking and turned to the assembled villagers, Mrs. Hutchinson came hurriedly along the path to the square, her sweater thrown over her shoulders, and slid into place in the back of the crowd.
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- Clean forgot what day it was,!
- People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quietly, staring downat the paper in his hand. Suddenly, Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers.
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- You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!
- Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar.
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- Come on, hurry up.
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