August Afternoon

August AfternoonVic Glover awoke with the noon-day heat ringing in his ears. He had been asleep for only half an hour, and he was getting ready to turn over and go back to sleep when he opened his eyes for a moment and saw Hubert's woolly black head over the top of his bare toes. He stretched his eyelids and held them open in the glaring light as long as he could.Hubert was standing in the yard, at the edge of the porch, with a pine cone in his hand.Vic cursed him.The colored man once more raked...