The Leading Citizen of Pratt County

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Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you Ellen Hale In a remarkable tale of... SUSPEN! I'm an old man now, and I'm afraid I'm not a very good old man.

In fact, by every conceivable standard I am a thoroughly bad old man. Not that such a thing is known or even suspected in Pratt County to the contrary. Here it is the universal and unshakeable opinion that I combine the wisdom of Solomon with the virtues of the Twelve Apostles.

But since I now have every reason to believe that I must shortly shuffle off this mortal coil, both honor and what I freely confess to be a perverted sense of humor and tell me to expose this pleasant notion for the outrageous fraud that it is.

And so it happens that I hereby leave to my heirs and assigns this true account of how I became the leading citizen of Pratt County. It was some twenty years ago that I first found myself driving through this part of the country with an associate of mine after the completion of a fairly successful operation on the west coast,