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ead of the stairs with a section of the newspaper in his hand, smiling perplexedly, and at last he'd always s Slowly and deliberately, he begins to crumple Defuniak's midterm, which is suspiciously perfect, A-plus work, into a ball. Get serious, though — who is? The boys stand at the entrance to the living room, Josie among them. Henry held his hands out and clapped as loudly as he could.

' Henry asked the question with his mind. My Dad used to do the same thing with the plugs from his Lawnboy and his rototiller when the cold weather came. THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON 347 I was usually trying to talk with Amos the Wise. In fact, he did what he did with almost no conscious thought at all.