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Regularly scheduled lor mischiei were the tourists who patronized the Esso Station. Some of them expected the “locals” to be comical bumpkins and sometimes local practical jokers were glad to oblige:
“There were quite a few tourists at the Esso Station on Sunday when Jim sauntered in. Nelson, who has a lot of devilment in him, asked him, principally for the benefit of the tourists, how he was getting along with his laying hens. “Well, Nelson,’ drawled Jim, ‘I’m not doing so well. You know, I had these 150 hens, and I was getting 3 dozen eggs a day and selling them at 30 cents a dozen, getting in 90 cents. My feed, I figured, was costing me about $1.20, so I was losing 30 cents a day — about ten cents a dozen. That was bad enough, when I was just getting 3 dozen
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