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Grandpa said, "Don't get yourself heated"

But Saone around behind the store A moment later he drove out the drive in his open-top car "Anyone comin' with me?"

"I'd like a drive," said Grandpa, and got up

"Anyone else?"

Nobody replied

Grandpa got in and slareat whorl of dust They didn't speak as they rushed down the road under the bright sky The heat fro

They stopped at a crossroad "Which way'd they go, Grandpa?"

Grandpa squinted "Straight on ahead, I figure"

They went on Under the summer trees their car made a lonely sound The road was e Teece slowed the car and bent out, his yellow eyes fierce

"God damn it, Grandpa, you see what them bastards did?"

"What?" asked Grandpa, and looked

Where they had been carefully set down and left, in neat bundles every few feet along the empty country road, were old roller skates, a bandanna full of knicknacks, some old shoes, a cartwheel, stacks of pants and coats and ancient hats, bits of oriental crystal that had once tinkled in the wind, tin cans of pink geraniums, dishes of waxed fruit, cartons of Confederate money, washtubs, scrubboards, wash lines, soap, soon, a jack-in-the-box, a stained-glassfroro Baptist Church, a whole set of brake ri chairs, jars of cold creaently and with feeling, with decorues of the road, as if a whole city had walked here with hands full, at which tireat bronze trumpet had sounded, the articles had been relinquished to the quiet dust, and one and all, the inhabitants of the earth had fled straight up into the blue heavens

"Wouldn't burn therily "No, wouldn't burn the and leave them where they could see theether and whole Theers think they're smart"

He veered the car wildly, , scattering bundles of paper, jewel boxes, mirrors, chairs "There, by damn, and there!"

The front tire gave a whistling cry The car spilled crazily off the road into a ditch, flinging Teece against the glass