Gone Fishin’

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Before he announced his engagement to EttaMae he was a happy man, full of himself. It’s true that he was especially pleased when misfortune happened to someone else, but at least he kept us smiling. Life was hard back then and a good laugh was worth a month of Sundays.

But just when he had a reason to be glad, Mouse turned sour and moody. He let his appearance go to seed (he was usually a natty dresser) and nobody wanted to be around him because when a small, rodent-faced man like Mouse got ugly he was no company even for the harshest man.

He stopped going to parties altogether. If you happened to run into him on some corner, or back alley, and asked how he was doing, he’d say, ‘What the hell you think? Here I am gonna get married in two months an’ ‘tween me an’ EttaMae we ain’t got enough money for dip an’ crackers.’

Mouse didn’t go out looking for work. All he did was get mad whenever he had to let go of a few coins.

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