Me Too-Gene Hill was the best writer of our time, with Corey Ford a close second. Best of all his best? Hard to say, but I'll go with "The Stranger" by Gene Hill and "The Road To Tinkhamtown" by Corey Ford. Loved Gene's "advice" about sneaking in a new Perrazi or Purdey.
Many years ago, when $40.00 was something to talk about, our nickel-dime-quarter three-raise limit Friday game. Ed hosted, had an old hammer double over the mantle, a late uncle left him. Ed had a red-hot night, won over $40, but his wife had the nasty habit of ransacking his wallet from time to time, so he told me he had stashed two Twenties- one in each barrel of the old beater shotgun- the one place his wife, who apparently hated guns, would ever look.
Ed came home from work, sat down, and said to his wife "Hey, Honey, did you take the old gun down from over the mantle?", as it was missing. "Nope", she replied, "I got tired of looking at it so I gave it to the trash man when he made the pickup today"..
I think Gene would have chuckled a bit at that sad but true story. Women, clever little minxes, and as the team leader said in "The Bridge On The River Kwai"- well, there's always the unexpected, isn't there..
