Rabbit smells the wind. He find out which way it drivin. He knock the coal from he pipe. Red-hot coal fall in the broom grass. Rabbit blow on the coal and it catch fire. Fire set pen the field, the broom grass all around on fire. And Rabbit find he self a stump to set pontop and he set up there and he watch and wait. The fire comin strong all around and around, for true.

—“Alligator and Deer,”
Virginia Hamilton

Visualize the scene created in the passage. Use your own words to describe in detail what you see, hear, and smell.