The Verdict

Pa sat in his big rocking chair, a pipe dangling from his mouth, with Ma and I sitting next to him on the porch. “I have some news to tell the both of you,” Pa said. “I found out just yesterday that Sheriff Westbrook has arrested Clovis Pruitt and Denver Peabody. Talk around town is that Clovis traded an old jersey cow for one of Denver’s daughters, and both of them were arrested and are going to have a trial by jury in about two weeks.

Ma looked astonished at what Pa has just revealed. “Well Clovis got cheated, them daughters of Denver is the ugliest women in these parts, every one of them looks like their uncle, Bill ‘Bulldog’ Peabody. I don’t see a bit of harm in Clovis swapping a cow for one of them gals, but I sure hope Clovis got some extra boot on the trade,” Mammy said and laughed.

“It’s no laughing matter,” blurted Pa. “They could go to prison for a long time from doing such a deed!” Pa declared.

“What I have always wondered is how old man Peabody and his wife, Bess, feed them six grown daughters, when  neither one of them was ever courted by any man here in Muddy Fork. That old shack that they live in is small in the first place, I bet they are butting heads in there

Imprint

Publisher: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Text: Stanley Mcqueen
Editing: Rebecca Bowslaugh
Publication Date: 07-17-2013
ISBN: 978-3-7309-3769-3

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Dedication:
Dedicated to all the hardworking Farmers in America.