:02:05
In deep Dixieland,
of October is almost summery.
:02:16
I had come to visit my father.
:02:19
Mother had died a few years before
and Daddy was living alone.
:02:23
He wouldn't have it otherwise.
:02:38
Seeing the old house,
nostalgia for the south gripped me.
:02:43
The old South I had known
and the people in it.
:02:49
When I was 13,
a girl came to this house.
:02:54
I overheard my father
decide with my mother
:02:57
to hire this girl.
:02:59
A good-natured, but unfortunate girl,
:03:01
working for a farm family,
near Gadsden, Alabama.
:03:06
Thus she was hired,
sight unseen, by a long-distance call.
:03:13
She was the first person
I ever loved outside my own family.
:03:19
But, as my father said,
:03:21
she caused
one hell of a damnable commotion.