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1. I don't know these people, I'll bet they were kind and wonderful.
2. I make it all up, no ill will is intended.
Ernest is the town's kleptomaniac.
He got away with it for a long while.
His down fall was the day that Miss Jessie Mae turned her ankle going down the front steps of the Wilson's Mercantile and Feed Store.
Ernest ran to her aid. (He had been sweet on Jessie Mae ever since she gave him a lingering glance at the church picnic last June.)
It was Ernest's misfortune that the deputy sheriff was in the store that day, buying a new bit and bridle for his horse, when he witnessed (wide eyed in disbelief) the trail of various sundries falling out of Ernest's beard - leaving a trail behind him.
Jessie Mae now visits him each and every day at the jail. She brings him a fresh baked item every day. She knows they will check the confections for files or other contraband hidden within. Today Jessie Mae has decided there is a perfect way to help her chivalrous Ernest... they wouldn't dare check for a file under a lady's petticoats inside an ankle cast!
