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Dead Rights Party XIIb

9/23/2019

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Ah’m also proud as punch that Ah not only de-sisted from th’ tem-tations to join them snake-oilas, Ah also fought ’em. But not in the tooth-an-nail tra-dition. Mah maythod was much more subtler. Ah followed the tra-dition of muh great-granddad, Orville Slack I, of muh granddad, Orville Slack II, and of muh de-ceased fathuh, Orville Slack III, by learnin’ the tricks o’ the beg-off trade. Matter o’ fact, Ah lifted that tra-dition to the highes’ peach.

It was this skill that emptied the churches o’ a Sunduh mownin’ and brawt the pa-rishioners of differn’ de-nominational puhsuasions t’ muh fron’ poach, where Ah held fowth on the evils o’ the snake-oil trade and did case-by-case analasees o’ the tricks of battlin’ thayt evil trade. This is how Ah made muh good-got gains. Not that I made a pile: a hat on the floor can hold only so menuh nickels and an oc-casional dahm, an’ Ah stood well within th’ law by ownin’ jus’ one hayet. Ah still own that hayet, which was o’ the ten-gallon va-rietuh.

O’ course Ah was pore. Fack is, Ah was tem’ted t’ hold midweek services t’ keep the books balance’. But seldom did Ah yield to that tametation. Once or twice a month, yep. Ever’ week, nope. An’ Ah did it as a public service.

Story goes that th’ so-called converts to muh cause made peri-odic attempts to nom’nate me fer sainthood. But they nevuh suc-ceeded. One excuse for overlookin’ muh good works was that I was under-qualified. Ah was not a Cath-olic. Ah considered joinin’ that de-nomination, but then Ah foun’ out that manuh Catho-lics atten’ their masses on Sunday, which was muh work day. An’ yessiree, Ah de-sisted, ’cause o’ their piety and the good works they pre-sumably per-foamed. Ah knew a bit o’ Latin—thayt was not the problem, as muh opponents have taken to say in their slanderous, snake-oil ways.

Tha’s ’bout it, folks!
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