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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>That episode about William Patton, and Mary's toxic
whiskey caused me to remember something that happened to me almost 60 years
ago. This happened about 1944/45 at the Shea house in Foster. I was
5 or 6 at the time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>One night my father asked me to go out to the Ford, and
bring in the pint whiskey bottle that was under the front seat. I went out
and got the bottle. Of course I took a big swig from it. I knew in
an instant that I had made a serious error! By the time I handed the
bottle to my father... he knew what I had done.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>That bottle contained a mixture of fuel oil and
kerosine that he used to start camp fires at the logging sites where
he worked, and camp sites when the family went fishing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>My mother fed me raw egg whites, and I lived to tell this
tale. I never did that again. :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
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