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13. Campbell, p. 127. 14. William Byrd, II, cited in Higgs, p. 3. 15. Higgs, p. 3. 16. Kephart, p. 216. 17. John Fox, Jr., "The Southern Mountaineer," Scribner's Magazine 24 (1901), p. 558. 18. Fox, p. 559. 19. Anne Newport Royall, Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the United States, cited in Voices From the Hüls, ed. Robert J. Higgs and Ambrose Manning (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1975), p. 73. 20. J. F. D. Smyth, A Tour in the United States of America (Dublin, 1784), I, p. 81. 21. Campbell, p. 132. 22. Merrill Maguire Skaggs, The Folk of Southern Fiction (Athens, Georgia: The Univeristy of Georgia Press, 1972), p. 153. AN APOLOGY I turned my back one time. That night without words he forgave me. I was loafing on the high school corner with leading citizens' progeny, when my father crossed the street. The brim of his coal miner's hat shadowed his coal-dust covered eyelashes. His battered aluminum lunch bucket bounced from the crook in his elbow. I turned my back one time. That night without words he forgave me. The next day I left the gang to walk home with my father. It was just that one time. But, shame chases my life, when the image breaks into my mind. Yet, that night without words he forgave me. Russell Maraño 56 _ * c*J~~ W*^ -^^^ 57 ...

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