ut it & I says o is it & I might know
youd get sore because I was the 1st to find out about the indyans being
wite men in disgised & she says yes I suppose if somebody was to paint
stripes on a cow you would make a speech about it & say that you had
discovered that it wasnt no tiger & I wish I had been 1 of them indyans
tonight because I would of loved to of beened you with a Tommy Hawk & I
says o you would would you & she seen it wasnt no use to argue with me
& anyway Ethen nobody would be fool enough to paint stripes on a cow
unless maybe they was born in Boston. Well Ethen thats the way it goes
& when you do put one over on the wife they want to hit you with a Tommy
Hawk with best rgds. Ed.

Friend Ethen--

No matter what a married man does in this world he gets in wrong &
I suppose if I was to die tonight Prudence would bawl me out for not
having let her know I was going to do it & just because I joined the
minit men the other eve. she has been acting like as if I had joined the
Baptis Church & I bet you are saying what in the h--ll is a minit man.
Well Ethen I will tell you. The other night I says to Prudence I think I
will drive over to Lexington to get Bessy shodd. Bessy is are horse see
Ethen. Well she says you will do nothing of the kind because all you
want to do in Lexington is get a snoot ful & if you think I am going to
wate up all night while you get boiled well you have got another guess
coming. She says the last time you had Bessy shodd the naybers are
talking about it yet & I says do you mean because I & Charley Davis was
singing & having a little fun & she says no because nobody wouldnt call
that singing & do you call it a little fun when you brought Bessy up
stares with you to show me how well she had been shodd at 3 A. M. in the
morning answer me that which is only her way of exagerating things Ethen
because we didnt bring Bessy only as far as the stares & I only did it
because Charley had been drinking a little to much & I didnt want to
iritate him because the way to handel drunks is to not iritate them they
are only worse only you cant tell a woman that & they think the way
to handel drunks is to look him in the eye & say arent you ashamed of
yourselves which only iritates him the moar. Well I says I am not going
to half no horse of mine going a round 1/2 shodd al the time & Prudence
says well I am not going to half no husband of mine going a round 1/2
shot al the time & I says I will not go near