This chapter opens in the yard of the boy's house as his mother bathes him by pouring skillets full of water over his young brown body. The boy's mother hears some neighborhood boys on the other side of the fence whispering that G's mother is bathing him, so she shoos the boys away. As the boys jump down from the fence, they break a pumpkin vine that had been ready to bear its fruit. G's mother complains to her neighbor who chastises her son, Bob, for being one of the boys to jump on the vine.
Now the commotion over the broken pumpkin vine has drawn other boys and girls to the fence where they look at G. standing naked and laugh at him in his embarrassment. G's mother returns to the yard and.....
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