The $500 Check — page 174: what you’re looking at

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EXPERIENCE AS A FARMER’S BOY. 15% who never find it out till some day they drop dead.’’ Mrs. Wilson a 2idedly was not a cheerful converser. She prided herself on detecting signs of unsuspected diseases. ‘* Mebbe you’ve got heart disease yourself, Sophia,’’ remarked the farmer jocosely. ** Just as likely as not,’ answered Mrs. Wil- son calmly. ‘*‘ lm sure my liver’s affected, for I feel it squirm-sometimes.”’ — ‘*Mebbe Id better look out for a second Mis’ Wilson,”’ suggested the farmer smiling. “You ain’t over healthy yourself, Silas,” responded his better half, surveying her hus- band in a business-like manner. ‘‘It looks to me as if your kidneys was out of order, and you're the very image of Jed Pettibone, who died of apoplexy. He lived next door to my mother. One day he was alive and well, and to-morrow he was as the grass of the field.’’ The farmer’s face wore a very uncomfortable look, and he was evidently by no means pleased with his wife’s prognostications. ‘*Nonsense!’’ he said testily. ‘‘’m ag well as any man of my age in Lakeville.”’ Gomilchbooks