But the small, strange boy threw a ham straight at him and it fell on the ground with a thunderous crash and broke into a million thin slices with mustard on them.
The noise of this falling meteor awoke Keekie Joe and he sat up, holding the two sides of his head, startled and dizzy from hunger.

And shining through the doorway of the shack he saw a light.

It was not the moonlight, but another light, and he crept, light-headed and fearful, toward the opening, ready to run in case it was a cop.

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