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BILL
By far the richest man in the group was Doctor William W. Williams. (Nobody
ever knew Doctor William Williams’s middle name but I always thought it
was William.) Doctor Williams’s son Bill was beyond a doubt the smartest
kid in all of South Lubec and probably the whole state of Maine. He walked
when he was two, talked when he was three, and by the time he was five
and ready for school he already knew his alphabet, (he could read and write
it with just a little help) he could count all the way to a hundred without
making too many mistakes, he could blow his own nose, and could even tie
his own shoes. For the first eight years in grammar school he never had
anything less than an “A” on his report card and for his four years in
high school he slipped once and got an A minus.
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Dr. William W. Williams realized how smart his son was and begged him to
go to college. The doctor could see his son becoming the Mayor of Lubec,
the governor of the great state of Maine or even president of the
United States of America. Almost every night for the four years his son
was in college Doctor Williams kept us informed of his son’s progress.
He led his class in every subject and was so bright all the other students
tried to follow in his footsteps. This, of course, was what his son kept
telling him and he kept relaying the messages on to us. |
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The night after his son graduated from college Dr. Williams came to the
country store late. His chin was so long he could almost walk on it and
his voice was so sad it hurt everyone present just to hear him say, "As
smart as my son is and as much education as he has had I think he has become
a baker.
“What could possibly make you think something like that?” a dozen voices
asked.
“I’m positive of one thing,” the doctor sadly replied, “he’s had a four
year loaf of father’s dough.”
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