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Show 79 Jimbo Funster spent less and less time in the house. At night I saw him sitting on his porch roof behind his sand bags, peering out his infra-red telescope toward the corner where the first black family had moved in, then swinging the tube toward Mr. Dean Danger's. Both Red and Hia Helen worried about him and even his wife, Irenejcame over sometimes to worry. I took the problem to Willie. "Myself," said Willie, "I am not really interested in the actual State After. I am concerned more wif the transition." "What about the Dialecticians?" "Refis and Refco are not mystics," he said. "They are metaphysicians. Besides, I am no longer interested in being shot in the limbs." XxxixxxxpaxixxxxxxiiMaxxxikxXaiaxxixaxxXaxaxaxMaxaxxxaxxx Stinky We were all getting older, even Stinky Jinx. But everyone sure was surprised when Stinky went, out for j\jr\iOf" football, more surprised when he made the team, flabbergasted when he ended up starting at half-back. I went to his first scrimmage. They'd lateral Stinky the ball and he'd xaa. head around the end, scarf flying and hooting like Daffy Duck. Instead of putting grease under his eyes like everybody else, he painted it on his eyelids. I guess I never realized it playing in the backyard where he didn't have any room to run and I flattened him like a pancake every time he touched the ball, but Stinky xax ran like greased mercury if he got any room. I walked him home after the scrimmage. "Jees, Stinky," I said, "I didn't know you could run like that." "Oh Jarvis, I'm just doing it for Dad. I really should thank you, you've been so much help." "How can you run like that?" "I'm so afraid of those guys," he said. "Who knows what they'd do if they got a hold of me." "You mean you don't ik like it?" "Oh golly no," said Stinky. "It's not nearly as delightful as chess. When is Edju coming again?" "I don't know. He lives in Cleveland." "I xxx wish I could play basketball," said Stinky. "Then I could x Jjttllf with those wonderful niggers." |