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Alice speaks abruptly frohts: "Do you know anybody named Fourkiller?"

"Oh, honey, you can’t hardly walk around here without stepping on a Fourkiller There’s Ledger Fourkiller, he’s a chief, just the nicest man you’d ever meet He does the ceremonies over at Locust Grove and lives on a shantyboat He’s lived down there on the lake since the second war, Roscoe says He’s got a landing built all out of old tires It’s a wonderful thing to see"

They walk in silence, until Sugar asks, "Do you remember the maypoles in Jackson?"

"Oh, sure The kids in white shoes, walking circles The boys would go one way and the girls the other"

Sugar touches her hair "The State Fair," she says "Theet And remember that carnival?"

"The coith a human face!" Alice cries

"Rubber ht legs!"

"You wanted your ar says,

"because it turned out to be dead and stuffed"

"I got it, too," Alice points out

"You had spunk, I’ll say that"

"Well, think about it Dead and stuffed, they could have just seo regular ones together"

"I’ve been thinking about that for forty years, Alice"

"That dead calf?"

"No You Telling the man you wanted your nickel back