Folk Tales, Chapters 7 through 10 Summary

Hurston is with a group of people telling stories, and over the course of the time, several stories spark other stories. The events also spark other stories. For example, someone is chided for their unwillingness to fire off a gun in what he sees as unfavorable circumstances. This sparks the story of a slave sent out to shoot a deer with the master's gun but the slave refuses to fire, saying he wasn't going to risk harming the master's gun by shooting uphill. That sparks stories about guns and another man tells about firing out the doorway into the dark one night. He says that there is a strange noise outside all night and the next morning he discovers that it's the bullet, waiting for daylight to figure out which way it's supposed to go.

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