American Humor: Stories From Plumtree Crossing General Store

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The Last Laugh column shares American humor and sage and folksy advice for MOTHER readers.

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American Humor at It’s Best

Well sir, this past summer was a real bear wrassler but it does appear that the worst of the heat is about over. Matter of fact it cooled off so rapid around here a few days ago that half the people in Barren County come down with the croup.

I reckon that’s the reason-what with so many folks wheezin’ and sneezin’ and all-that the loafers down to the Plumtree Crossin’ General Store last Saturday jumped to the conclusion the way they did that Ole Man Bartlett was havin’ a seizure.

Can’t say I blame ’em either . . . the way Ole Ott come a’staggerin’ up the road all doubled over and purple in the face and a’gaspin’ for breath and with the tears a’runnin’ down his face. And then, as if that weren’t bad enough, he give out with such a convulsion, as he fell down all sprawled out full-length across the liar’s bench there to the side of the store, that he bit the stem of his favorite corncob pipe clean in two.

  • Published on Sep 1, 1977
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