Characters:
- Mr. Shiftlet
- Lucynell
Summary:
- a one-armed tramp, "Mr. Shiftlet", walks to a run-down farm where an old woman and her retarded daughter Lucynell are sitting on the front porch
- Lucynell cannot talk
- Mr. Shiftlet persuades the old woman to hire him for work around the farm and for repairing a car. She says she can feed him, but not pay him.
- Over the next few weeks he repairs the car which he really wants and offers to marry Lucynell for money.
- After the wedding, Mr. Shiftlet takes Lucynell on a honeymoon, but abandons her in a diner on the first day, claiming she was a hitchiker.
- As he continues driving towards Mobile, he picks up a boy and begins to lecture him about being good to his mother.
- The angry boy jumps out of the car and Mr. Shiftlet prays that "God will break forth and wash the slime from this earth."
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