`` Mr. Morgan, it's the best-looking food I ever saw ''.

I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.

I saw that letter.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball.

I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.

With distaste I saw him assume a pompous air.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

`` I never saw him.

Then I saw the father's head slightly turn ; ;

Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled, and, thumbing hopefully, I saw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming silk of blonde hair and -- ah, trembling confusion of hope, apprehension, despair -- the leering face of old Herry.

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.

I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.

One Monday morning I saw him approach the store with a woman and introduce me to her as my new Aunt.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

I found that this precocious, grown-up boy of 74 deserved to be taught.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.

You wouldn't have me throw the poor boy out on the street '', Eileen said when I needled her about it.

I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.

I never gave that boy a cent.

I am not a prostitute, and I had only one very wealthy boy friend '', she said.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

* 1966 – " Dandy " / " I Don't Need Your Kind " ( 7 " single )

Her most successful records were " Tweedlee Dee " ( 1955 ), " Jim Dandy " ( 1956 ), and " I Cried a Tear " ( 1958 ).

Further hits followed for Atlantic, including the follow-up " Jim Dandy Got Married " (# 7 R & B ), " I Cried a Tear " (# 2 R & B, # 6 pop in 1959 ), " I Waited Too Long " (# 5 R & B, # 3 pop, written by Neil Sedaka ), " Saved " (# 17 R & B, written by Leiber and Stoller ), and " See See Rider " (# 9 R & B in 1963 ).

The segment " I Can Do Science, Me " uses the track " I Am A Scientist " by the Dandy Warhols.

She also played the mandolin on The Dandy Warhols track " I Am Sound " from their Welcome to the Monkey House LP.

* The song or its melody has also been used in many movie soundtracks, including Cavalcade, 1933 Gone with the Wind, 1939 ( a Confederate military band plays it in the background of a scene taking place in Atlanta ); The Great Dictator, 1940 ; Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942 ; Stalag 17, 1953 ( it is sung by American prisoners of war ); The Horse Soldiers, 1959 ; How The West Was Won, 1962 ; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964 ; The Crazies, 1973 ; Born on the Fourth of July 1989 ; Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 ; The Second Civil War, 1997 ; and Antz, 1998.

Flower Alley has won the Grade II Jim Dandy Stakes, the Grade II Lane's End Stakes ( in his third career start ), and, on August 27, the Grade I Travers Stakes at Saratoga.