Chapter 5: The Water Cure

The Water Cure When it comes to makin’ matches I hand it to the women. When it comes to breakin’ ’em leave it to the handsomer sex. The thirteenth o’ June didn’t light on a Friday, but old Tuesday come through in the pinch with just as good results. Dear little Sister-in-law Bess blew in on the afternoon train from Wabash. She says she was makin’ us a surprise visit. The surprise affected me a good deal like the one that was pulled on Napoleon at Waterloo, IAs. “How long are you goin’ t…