I
don't believe they ate up that many children."
"Yes, they did too," championed Jimmy, "'cause it's in the Bible
and Miss Cecilia 'splained all 'bout it to me, and she's our
Sunday-School teacher and 'bout the bullyest 'splainer they is.
Them Teddy bears ate up 'bout a million chillens, which is all
the little boys and girls two Teddy bears can hold at a time."
"I knows a man what ain't got no hair 't all on his head,"
remarked Billy; "he's a conjure-man an' me an' Wilkes Booth
Lincoln been talkin' to him ever sence we's born an' he ain't
never cuss us, an' I ain't never got eat up by no Teddy bears
neither. Huccome him to be bald? He's out in the fiel' one day
a-pickin' cotton when he see a tu'key buzzard an' he talk to her
like this:
"`I say tu'key buzzard, I say,
Who shall I see unexpected today?'
"If she flop her wings three times you goin' to see yo'
sweetheart, but this-here buzzard ain't flop no wings 't all; she
jes' lean over an' th'ow up on his head an' he been bald ever
sence; ev'y single hair come out.
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