标题: 《Seventh Son 》作者：- Orson Scott Card【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-12 07:42 标题: 《Seventh Son 》作者：- Orson Scott Card【EPUB】 Seventh Son SEVENTHSON SEVENTH SON The Tales of Alvin Maker, Volume 1 by Orson Scott Card ?? ?? 1987 by Orson Scott Card Alvin Maker 1 - Seventh Son Chapter One—Bloody Mary Little Peggy was very careful with the eggs. She rooted her hand through the straw till her fingers bumped something hard and heavy. She gave no never mind to the chicken drips. After all, when folk with babies stayed at the roadhouse, Mama never even crinkled her face at their most spetackler diapers. Even when the chicken drips were wet and stringy and made her fingers stick together, little Peggy gave no never mind. She just pushed the straw apart, wrapped her hand around the egg, and lifted it out of the brood box. All this while standing tiptoe on a wobbly stool, reaching high above her head. Mama said she was too young for egging, but little Peggy showed her. Every day she felt in every brood box and brought in every egg, every single one, that’s what she did. Every one, she said in her mind, over and over. I got to reach into every one. Then little Peggy looked back into the northeast corner, the darkest place in the whole coop, and there sat Bloody Mary in her brood box, looking like the devil’s own bad dream, hatefulness shining out of her nasty eyes, saying come here little girl and give