"Talking about houses makes me think that the Stockton girls are having
their house painted by a man with a wooden leg. Billy Evans picked him
up somewhere and Seth Curtis was telling me how he came to lose that
leg. Seems like he was prospecting somewheres in Montana, got drunk,
froze it, gangrene set in and they had to amputate. They say he's a
mighty smart man too. Maybe John'll get him to paint our house when
he's through at the Stocktons.
"Talk about physical deformities! Eva Collins has got it into her head
that she's too fat entirely and she's been dieting and rolling and
taking all sorts of exercises religiously. Seems she got so set on
being thin that she practices these exercises whenever she happens to
think of it and wherever she happens to be. She happened to be right
under the lights three or four times and so she smashed them, globes
and all. Bill says she'd better reduce in the barn or else let him
charge admission for a rolling performance to pay for the broken lights.
"So there's Eva trying to thin off and they say Mert Hagley's swollen
all out of shape, having been stung almost to death by his own bees.
Of course, nobody's sympathizing overmuch with Mert. He was so afraid
of losing a swarm of bees that he forgot to be cautious and there he is
laid out.
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