But Edward didn’t holler. He just sat down on the coal. I
reckon he was scared weak-like.
“Don’t you throw no coal, neither,” the other fellow said. But
Edward didn’t look like he was gonna throw coal.
“What do yo want?” he asked by and by in a nice white-folks
kind of voice. “Am I kidnaped?”
Well, sir, we never thought of kidnapin’. I reckon we both
looked puzzled. I could see the other guy thinkin’ maybe we
ought to hold him for ransom. Then he musta decided that that
weren’t wise, ’cause he says to this white boy, “No, you ain’t
kidnaped,” he says. “We ain’t got no time for that. We’s hongry
right now, so, buddy, gimme your money.”
The white boy handed out of his coat pocket amongst other
things a lady’s pretty white beaded bag that he’d been sent after.
My partner held it up.
4) In "Why, You Reckon?" why don’t the narrator and the other man want to hold Edward for ransom? Is their motivation internal or external?