Ted says he always liked these particular
pants on account of them making him look slim and being made of the
same kind of cloth as his first long pair of pants that he got as a
boy. So he was cherishing them and Josephine goes and cuts them into
tatters. He's so mad, she says she don't dare leave a rag rug in his
sight.
"Mat Wilson and his wife ain't on the very best conjugal terms either.
It seems Mat has a felon right under his thumb nail, about the worst
place you can have one, he thinks. It's kept him awake nights and made
him miserable, so naturally he felt entitled to a good deal of
sympathy. And he got it. Everybody has sympathized so much that Clara
just got mad and said that that there felon of Mat's isn't half as bad
as the one that she had at the end of her thumb two years ago. She
says she got hollow-eyed and consumptive looking with hers but that Mat
looks about the same as usual, maybe brighter. Anyhow, they've argued
and scrapped about their felons so that Clara's aunt's gone off for a
visit to Ioway, and Mat says that there sure is a recompense for
everything in this world, even felons and domestic misery, and Clara
wants to know if he's meaning to insinuate that her aunt is a nuisance,
because if he is she ain't going to send his aunt the Christmas present
that she's got half done for her.
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