George Crooks' Mysterious Back Ailment

George Crooks.  But anyway, my uncle and he were great storytellers...Uncle Leonard Fanning and George as well.  Of course, Lottie was full of fun.  You wouldn't think she was--that was Don's mother.  She was a big woman.  And anyway, George and my Uncle Leonard was always swapping stories.  And one fellow would try to get ahead of the other.  You know, telling them...

So, anyway, George got up one morning, and he had a bath.  And then, they wore what they called culmination underwear--it was all one piece.  And there was long sleeves and long legs.  Well, the sleeves weren't as long, of course, as the legs.  But when he got up--all he had was a lamp; at that time, the power wasn't around--he put this on upside down.  And he went down the cove to do some work, and he said he was all bent over, and he didn't know what was wrong with him.  

After a while, he came to the house.  He said, "Lottie, there's something awful wrong with me."  She said, "What's the matter, George?"  "Well," he said, "I'm all stooped over, and I don't know what's wrong!"  So, she said, "Take off your shirt and let me see."  She went in a fit of laughing, and she said "No wonder, man!  You've got your underwear on upside down!"  He looked at her.  "Don't you dare to tell Leonard Fanning about this!"  So, they had a telephone at that time, and she went to the phone after George went.  She said, "Leonard, come on down, I've got a story to tell you!"

And them's the things that happen which are true to life!  Oh, my!