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By Jack Joseph Smith
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His green. eyes were a cat to his toes, not: clawed,
but’ smoeth and sures He knew :how to move in a way:
2 that upset ne ones when no meney had’ been paid for
; his pleasures’ He was -leese in the hipsy a profess=
ienal, but his shoulders. and ‘neck were firm fron
his stomach being master,'-He-wert about: his -emall =
abedé-ef cellected 'teys; paintings by young womerty
feathersy dried flowers, brass:canisters, tarnisi-
edigilver plates; his: patvets meddvéal winitures
- he. strolled about it with the alertness of a fox
who has invaded" your half eye sleeping in a-dream :
‘to far gene-not accept a presence completely” alive:
' eubgide of your contrels . ,
, Animal and Jaugeline laid backs; the smoke otrtieg
ee from the “quilteste the ceiling threugh tke fishing :
net,and ‘spider webs neatly let fimmfor flies, but“
of course ‘removed: wher gone te dangling from aband-
malig Birr oh Wigeten Ht voll wake bos avests mefctnk,
Javon: took his hands away from the gutarand’sang /. “Soup X%
of Hawaii in the same Black, sincere-black om white
style; It:worked' for. Animal’4 dreams, -and“he-imew:
the big tandé=frem~the islands, :and he Imew: the in-- >
portant bands:fer close finger touching brothers toos-
: Joe's-fingers::twisted’ out upen the -smoke, and weaved’
with: the di lantern gtow, His mouth was: spaced’ and’
excited, when Jauqeline rose-to put the pipe again to