The End of the Night

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Well, we had the big day here, and we sent the four of them off to their reward with what Satchel-Butt Shires, our lovable Warden called “splendid efficiency.” Honest to God, if you’d still been here, you would have split a gut watching Shires sweat blood around here as burning day got closer and closer.

I admit it was a pretty big deal all right, four in one day when the most we ever had before was three, and this time one of them was a she. Did you know she was the third female ever executed in this state? I didn’t. It just goes to show how fast women can talk, Eddie boy. Do I need to tell you?

Anyhow, Big-Butt Shires knows he’s going to have a full house, and he like to drove everybody crazy with this idea he got about rehearsals. He borrowed a stop watch someplace, and half the time it wasn’t right because he didn’t know how to work it, and then he’d chew us out. Remember how red his face gets? How could you forget? He chewed on you most of anybody.

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