Mrs. Willie Bailey lived @ 500 North Foster in a Baker "GIFT HOUSE" on the corner of North Foster and Newton. That's the house where the author of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD grew up.

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He (Buck Bannon) looked critically at the small white house set neatly in the angle of the corner lot on which they had planted the shrub, then his eyes wandered back and forth to the other two corners where houses exactly like the nearest centered corner lots that were each one fourth of the block. He could see Jeanie Bannon's home- the first house he'd ever built-still reared two stories above the fourth corner and in his mind's eye he could see the barn and the meat house and the chicken runs and the cow lot all sprawling back to the strict edge of the parcel of land that went with the house behind her. His eyes squinted along the precise white shine of smooth sidewalk that bordered the block. He frowned at the roots of the sycamores growing between sidewalk and curb, where already big roots had pried up slabs at the foot of each tree. He followed with satisfaction, though, the same type of slabs that formed wide walkways leading up to the four green steps of each house. His upper lip curled a little as he thought about those walkways, and he hoped nobody would notice that they were made out of the same stuff and laid just exactly like those the city had used for sidewalk. He leaned over suddenly and spat for luck at the trunk of the small shrub his mother pushed back, sighing.

"Worries me," he said, "them not having but two bedrooms,"

"They'll do good to keep those clean," Jeanie Bannon said, rubbing her hands together briskly to clear them of loose dirt.