Harriette Simpson Arnow
A Mess of Pork
By Harriette Simpson Arnow - Jan 3, 2018
She was not an old woman, but she made me feel young. I guess because I’d never had any trouble like she had. She wore a shawl overhead, and had a baby in her arms. The baby was nursing. When she saw me she pushed her breast out of sight.
“I killed a copper,” I said.