Now, facts are facts. Wiley was a boy. He and his mama lived by themselves with just Wiley's dogs. Say Wiley's papa fell off the
ferry boat one time. The river was quick there where he fell. They looked for Wiley's papa a long way down the river and in the pools of the sandbanks. And say they never found him. But they heard a great bad laughin way off across the river. And everybody sayin it, "That's the Hairy Man." Sayin Wiley's papa never got across Jordan because the Hairy Man block his way. —“Wiley, His Mama, and the Hairy Man,” Virginia Hamilton Identify two clues that show this passage is probably from the story’s
exposition. The author introduces Wiley and his mama. The author describes
the results of the conflict. The author describes the most exciting scene in the
story. The author describes the setting for the story. The author describes how the story ends.
