The narrator reveals that the latter's major (*) tragedy occurred when he was known as Adolph Meyers, after a "half-witted boy" at his school fell in love with him, leading the town to interpret his compulsive gestures and caresses as attempts to molest children.
This story's younger character gains his curiosity into the title entities after their owner suddenly beats them against a fence and yells at him for being too conformist. Those entities are finally seen "flashing in and out of the light…going swiftly through decade after decade of [a] rosary," having earlier been described as moving "like unto the beating of the wings of an imprisoned bird," leading their owner only to achieve peace at night on the veranda, when it is too dark to see them.  The narrator reveals that the latter's major (*) tragedy occurred when he was known as Adolph Meyers, after a "half-witted boy" at his school fell in love with him, leading the town to interpret his compulsive gestures and caresses as attempts to molest children. For 10 points, name this story about George Willard's friend Wing Biddlebaum, a possessor of fidgety digits, from Winesburg, Ohio.
This story's younger character gains his curiosity into the title entities after their owner suddenly beats them against a fence and yells at him for being too conformist.
{“Hands”}