Summary

Cecelia is reading one of the books Mrs. Goodpepper loaned her when she comes across a Confederate dollar dated 1861 and she crosses the back yard to return it to her. She finds Thelma Rae collecting slugs in a jar, and then using a spatula to flip them over the fence and into Mrs. Hobb’s back yard. She tells Cecelia that with any luck, the slugs will eat half of her garden by morning. Right then, Violene comes out her back door described by Thelma Rae as looking like a ‘centerfold in a poultry catalog’.

A man wearing a Zorro mask follows her out, twirling her brassiere over his head and asking Violene to strip for him again. She tries to retrieve it from him but he throws it into the shrubbery. He grabs for her and giggling, she runs across the porch...