Summary

Chapter 9. In Chapter 9, Riddley relates after the show, the elders of the village, of which he realizes he is now a part, go upstairs to drink. Riddley becomes hungry to be alone and goes to the roof to look at the falling rain and the night. He says, "I had off nex day no digging to do only in my head for Nex Nite and my connexion. I had a nuff and moren a nuff to connect with all I had to do wer sort it out my head wer perwel humming and spinning with it" (Chapter 9, p. 46).

The next night, Riddley reveals his "connexion" to Straiter Empy and a crowd. Riddley claims that "to my 1st connexion I dint want no 1 to think I wer trying to be a nother Brooder Walker nor I dint want to come on with nothing flash" (Chapter 9, p...