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64 41P Zora Neale Hurston"How you gointuh do dat, Sam, when Ah arrived dis conversationmahself? Ah'm askin' you.""Askin' me what? You ain't told me de subjick yit.""Don't aim tuh tell yuh! Ah aims tuh keep yuh in de dark allde time. If you'se smart lak you let on you is, you kin find out.""Yuh skeered to lemme know whut it is, 'cause yuh knowAh'll tear it tuh pieces. You got to have a subjick tuh talk from,do yuh can't talk. If uh man ain't got no bounds, he ain't got noplace tuh stop."By this time, they are the center of the world."Well all right then. Since you own up you ain't smart enoughtuh find out whut Ah'm talkie' 'bout, Ah'll tell you. Whut is it datkeeps uh man from gettin' burnt on uh red-hot stove—caution ornature?""Shucks! Ah thought you had somethin' hard tuh ast me.Walter kin tell yuh dat.""If de conversation is too deep for yuh, how come yuh don'ttell me so, and hush up? Walter can't tell me nothin' uh de kind.Ah'm uh educated man, Ah keeps mah arrangements in mahhands, and if it kept me up all night long studyin"bout it, Walterain't liable tuh be no help to me. Ah needs uh man lak you.""And then agin, Lige, Ah'm gointuh tell yuh. Ah'm gointuhrun dis conversation from uh gnat heel to uh lice. It's nature datkeeps uh man off of uh red-hot stove.""Uuh huuh! Ah knowed you would going tuh crawl up indat holler! But Ah aims tuh smoke yuh right out. 'Tain't nonature at all, it's caution, Sam.""'Tain't no sich uh thing! Nature tells yuh not tuh fool widno red-hot stove, and you don't do it neither.""Listen, Sam, if it was nature, nobody wouldn't have tuh lookout for babies touchin' stoves, would they? 'Cause dey just naturallywouldn't touch it. But dey sho will. So it's caution."