TEWWG pg 66

Text: "Look at dat great big ole scoundrel-beast up dere at Hall's fillin station...Dey caught him over in Egypt....He wouldn't dig potatoes, and he wouldn't rake hay: He wouldn't take a whipping, and he wouldn't run away."

The men start to talk about a beast which is an allusion to the Sphinx. "How they going to tell he's a million years old", "Dey caught him over in Egypt." The men also talk of the beast swallowing men up and one man talks in rhyme as the sphinx does sometimes.