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able than the more straight-laced people he outwits verbally.
“Josh had been a pretty heavy drinker,” relates Ned in his Tales “but years back he stopped, and when he stopped he stopped for good and never took another drink. However, he still kept a fellow feeling for the man who couldn’t resist a drink. That was directly opposite to that attitude of another man in the neighborhood who, when he stopped drinking, lost all patience with those who had not. In fact, he became quite straight-laced. He had a brother who would get wild as \a March hare when he had a few, and would do all kinds of crazy things. One day this man was talking to Josh about the way his brother behaved and he said, ‘I tell you right now, Josh, you can’t say that whiskey made a damned fool of me.’ Josh replied, ‘No, you’re right. The good Lord took care of that when you were born.’ ”
Josh had an interesting housekeeping system. He didn’t like work much and tried to reduce his chores to a minimum by careful planning.
“As time went on,” Ned remembered, “he picked up a certain efficiency which was really to be marvelled at. For instance, in the latter years of his life he was left a widower and had to do his own cooking. So he developed a system: the stove was about three feet from the table. He drove a nail in the end of the table and hung an old ham on it. He could swing around to the left, take a butcher knife, slice off a nice slice of this old ham, wheel to the right, drop it in the skillet on the stove, and he really had it made. He didn’t even have to get up out of his chair.”
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