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he wasn't born, he was sent ...say he was a stranger in this world and don't know nothin' 'bout the ways'a humans.

So I ask'es him, "How come you lookin ' like a human, then, Mister Edward Zantzinger?"

"Oh, Iju t puts on this earth-body so I can watch humans without they sus- pect me studyin' 'em," says he.

That's when I knowed he was gone, Lord! Gone!

He had this game he used'ta play where he wanted me to ask him who he was. Ever'day he was something else. Ever'time the missus or the mistuh took him to the picture'show, he'd come home something else.

One day he'd be Batman, next day he'd be Robin. Or he was Sky King, The Shadow, The Phantom, The Mask Marvel, The Green Hornet, Captain Marvel, Th Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein, Dick Tracy, Casper The Gho t, Th Bad S ed, The Werewolf, Mad Ghoul, The Lone Ranger, Th Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire ...and I don't know how many imps and goblin and If and fi nd he wa !

On day he says to m , ''You know, Hagar. ..I used to be a angel, and God kicked m aut-a heab'n. But I'm gittin' back up there."

Th n h jump on hi r din' horse and commence to ride I-don't-know where.

I'd a k him "Where you off to, pardner?" nd h 'd ay, "I'm gain' human-huntin', Hagar.' Then he'd hall r "Hi' a ilverl way!" And off he d rock. Do:J su I

Last time I seen him, I was ettin' on my porch watchin ' the freedom'rid- ers marchin' to ee the governor, and there he come on a horse leadin' a whole arm 'a'haints! Sh riffs and can tables with dogs and guns and billy- ticks, b atin' on them chill'un! And I could hear the little bones just-a rackin' and I throwed up m hands and hoUered, "Jesus! Jesus."

And ou must-a heard me, ord, 'cause that's when he look up and seen me. Ed, ard Zantzing r He tried to turn'wa his face, but h'it was him, all rightl And I called out hi name, real loud: