if she can take notice

“Ayy,” his mother whispered. His father turned and looked back. “Whyn’t you go see her the first, Paw?” he said very low. “Yore the eldest.” “Tain’t me she wants to see,” Grandfather Follet said. “Hit’s the younguns ud tickle her most.” “Reckon that’s the truth, if she can take notice,” the old woman said. “She shore like to cracked her heels when she heared yore boy was born,” she said to Jay, “Mary or no Mary. Proud as Lucifer. Cause that was the first,” she told Mary. “Yes, I know,” Mary said. “Fifth generation, that made.” “Did you get her postcard, Jay?” “What postcard?” “Why no,” Mary said. “She tole me what to write on one a them postcards and put hit in the mail to both a yews so I done it. Didn’t ye never get it?” Jay shook his head. “First I ever heard tell of it,” he said. “Well I shore done give hit to the mail. Ought to remember. Cause I went all the way into Polly to buy it and all the way in again to put it in the mail.” “We never did get it,” Jay said. “What street did you send it, Aunt Sadie?” Mary asked. “Because we moved not long be ... “Never sent it to no street,” the old woman said. “Never knowed I needed to, Jay working for the post office.” “Why, I quit working for the post office a long time back, Aunt Sadie. Even before that.” “Well I reckon that’s how come then. Cause I just sent hit to ‘Post Office, Cristobal, Canal Zone, Panama,’ and I spelt hit right, too. C-r-i ...” “Oh,” Mary said. “Aw,” Jay said. “Why, Aunt Sadie, I thought you’d a known. We been living in Knoxvul since pert near two years before Rufus was born.”