James Hall Lena Slack talked like a parrot, moved like a jaguar and acted like a vulture. All the kids hated her. and she reciprocated. When something went wrong at her home she blamed the kids, mainly the Lillibridge kids. One Halloween night a group of high school boys turned over nearly every privy in town, not only turning over Lena Slack’s outhouse but threw ripe tomatoes on her freshly painted front porch. The high school principal made the entire class go round restoring privies right-side-up during lunch hour and scrub each porch clean, while Lena’s evil vulture eyes willed them all stone dead.
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