Elbert Lee Jones dutifully did as instructed by Raymond Cooper, but that didn’t mean he was pleased about the situation.“Why is it,” he wondered, “I always get stuck with the dirty work?”Let’s face it. If Raymond had an important task to get done, he would assign it to Marvin Walsh or Farley Puckett. Even postman Earl Goodman, the town’s only federal employee, was higher on the pecking list than Elbert Lee.“Sure,” Elbert Lee, one of two primary dairy farmers in the area, thought, “if Raymond wants eggs prices to go up a nickel, he calls me.
The real truth preceded by a couple-beer lunch
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