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I don't know what to do, Mr. Hilton, I cain’t figure out where to shoot!”
“Well, suh, you done jus’ solve yo’ own problem, den. See, shootin’ ain’t much of a thankin’ thang. Iss a doin’ thang, See Lucy ober dar? She ain't thankin’ bout what she gon’ do next. Her lil’ andimal brain just do it. Sumpin’ in her just feel what to do an’ where to go. You got a andimal brain, too. An’ if you jus’ let it go, it'll show you where ta shoot. You jus quit thankin’ and keep on shootin’. Puddy soon it'll all wuk out. It jus’ take a lil’ while.”
It was so, too, because Hilton said it was. And before long June Bailey was known far and wide as a child prodigy; “a shootin’ fool, if there ever was one.”
- A Small Southern Tale By Bob Matthews
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