Chapter 4
Skeeter Jones was actually only a year younger than Lisa, but was much smaller. His very skinny frame, complete with long feet, and a small angular head had led to his name of Skeeter, a colloquialism for mosquito. He was a little lighter than the other colored children; supposedly his grandfather had been white. This lack of blackness led to a general shunning by the other colored kids because their parents, as often the white parents did, felt the races should “stay with their own kind”.
When the girls had arrived two years before, the other white children refused to play with them. It wasn’t because they were poorer, because people can only get so poor, so they were all in the same class in that regards. But the girls were shunned because they were “mountain folks”, “hil
