Tales From Crippletoe Creek, Martin Boring [reading comprehension books TXT] 📗

Introduction

Eunice is awakened in the night by a knock on the kitchen door. Visitors at this hour usually mean only one thing, someone is in need of the brew her husband Baez has been making and selling since before they were married.

Eunice is a good Christian woman and while she frowns upon the evils of alcohol and doesn't partake of it herself, she does acknowledge the fact that there are a few necessities in life that one must purchase and the money from the sale of Baez's "Corn Cure" provides just that.

Baez found out a long time ago that Eunice was a force to be reckoned with and he along with his customers learned if they wanted that jar of clear liquid that served a variety purposes from cleaning a nasty wound to numbing ones senses to the circumstances of life, they had better do as they were told, no questions asked.

You see, Eunice only allowed the brew to be sold for medicinal purposes and even though she knew in her heart that some folks were just using it to get drunk on, she considered this weakness in character an illness in and of itself. Therefore, if you wanted the cure you did just what Eunice ordered; "Put yer left hand on the good book and raise yer right han. Repeat these here words: "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Proverbs 20:1"

She determined that it was but her position to give the warning and let the chips fall where they may. "The good Lord has charged me wit bein' a witness not a judge" is her philosophy..................

Publication Date: 12-29-2010

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Dedication:
Dedicated To Martha Ann Boring & Elizabeth Staton