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happen.” But Mr. Easxham wasn’t impressed by the mystery of the undelivered milk. The next morning, she sent Bob off - ith a mason jar full, instructing him to hold it carefully in both hands. “I had one hand on the top and the other hand un-, derneath the bottom of the jar. There was no way it was going to get away from mel I was holding it tightly in both hands when we passed the Buford house. This time, it fell apart by cracking around the middle and milk came spurting out through the cracks...’Something is happening here,’ I told myself and then I looked around to see where’here’ was. I looked up on the hill directly opposite us and I saw the Eastham graveyard. Uncle Kootz was playing another one of his jokes on me!”
Eastham said that his uncle, a reknown teaser and practical joker, had been buried in tne cemetery just a year before. “I’ve thought about it many, many times and after SO years, I still can’t come up with a rational, scientific explanation of what happened to those milk jars. It had to be somebody in that graveyard who was recently buried and Uncle Kootz was the only one I’d had a relationship with. I didn’t even known any of the others and he’d been a big one for practical jokes and teasing me.” The Oscar Baldwin home
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