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66 4ip Zora Neale HurstonThe porch was boiling now. Starks left the store to HezekiahPotts, the delivery boy, and come took a seat in his high chair."Look at dat great big ole scoundrel-beast up dere at Hall'sfillin' station—uh great big old scoundrel. He eats up all de folksouta de house and den eat de house.""Aw 'tail* no sich a varmint nowhere dat kin eat no house!Dat's uh lie. Ah wuz dere yiste'ddy and Ah ain't seen nothin' lakdat. Where is he?""Ah didn't see him but Ah reckon he is in de back-yard someplace. But dey got his picture out front dere. They was nailin' itup when Ah come pass dere dis evenin'.""Well all right now, if he eats up houses how come he don'teat up de fillin' station?""Dat's 'cause dey got him tied up so he can't. Dey got uhgreat big picture tellin' how many gallons of dat Sinclair highcompressiongas he drink at one time and how he's more'n uhmillion years old.""'Tain't nothin' no million years old!""De picture is right up dere where anybody kin see it. Deycan't make de picture till dey see de thing, kin dey?""How dey goin' to tell he's uh million years old? Nobodywasn't born dat fur back.""By de rings on his tail Ah reckon. Man, dese white folks gotways for tellin' anything dey wants tuh know.""Well, where he been at all dis time, then?""Dey caught him over dere in Egypt. Seem lak he used tuhhang round dere and eat up dem Pharaohs' tombstones. Dey gotde picture of him doin' it. Nature is high in uh varmint lak dat.Nature and salt. Dat's whut makes up strong man lak Big John deConquer. He was uh man wid salt in him. He could give uh flavorto anything.""Yeah, but he was uh man dat wuz more'n man. 'Tain't no