Nell's Savings Account
by Mary Lee Bilyou
Great Grandma Nell married a drunk who happened to own a bar. Quiite a combo. Year after year her husband would drink with his customers until he passed out. Quietly, Nell would slip down the stairs from the overhead apartment and take two dollars out of the till. This went on for years.
When a financial downturn brought the town to it's knees, the bar suffered and closed. Broken and tired of the "life", he wept to tell his Nell of their bad fortune. Nell bent to her knees and lifted her petticoat and ripped open a seam and took out a fist full of money. Presenting it to him she added, "There's a pig farm in the next county we can buy for a song." And so they became the respected pig farmers of Ney, Ohio and then Great Grandma Nell had her one and only daughter, Agnes. My Grandmother.
About the author:
Retired and happy in a little town in Hawaii. Weather perfect. Life is good.
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