We hadn't set there more'n an hour till I could tell we was being noticed by the blacks, not out open and above board.

But every now and then one or two or three would pass along down the street, and lazy about and take a look at us.

They pertended they wasn't noticing, but they was.

The word had got around, and they was a feeling in the air I didn't like at all.

Too much caged-up excitement among the niggers.