"One eye opened I look away, I was searching but couldn't take any more"

…for a place to hide; it leaped again past Bigger and scurried on dry rasping feet to one side of the box and then to the other, searching…

…?” “Eating garbage and anything else they can get.” “Look, Bigger, there's a three-inch rip in your pantleg.” “Yeah; he was after me…

…with that rat and she fainted! Ain't you got no sense at all?” “Aw, I didn't know she was that scary.” “Buddy!” the mother called. “Yessum…