"After
you left for Winfield last night I sat in grandpa's living room while the
relatives gabbed. One can learn interesting facts by listening to such
conversations, e.g., 'if a chicken drowns, give it to your neighbor.' That
appears in the Bible--so Uncle Everett told his wife when she reprimanded him
for giving a drowned chicken to a half-wit neighbor. Since Uncle Everett is not an erudite
man--quite definitely not the type to be a Bible reader, she took it with a
grain of salt--until her Bible study class under the direction of Maude Haver
took up a study of Deuteronomy the following evening. Among the first verses read was the one
containing in terse King James English the command which Uncle Everett had
adhered to--3000 years after Moses had made it."
--Letter from my father, Bloomington, Kans., to
my mother, Winfield, Kans., Monday, June 23, 1947.
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