Burley Winsome is a real smart fellow, sorta. He's what some of us call half-smart. He can add a column of four digit numbers in his head and can build a house and not miss a single measurement and he can get it built in the shortest period of time you can imagine. But in other things he is lacking. One of the things he does is look at this internet site every morning for the quote of the day. A lot of times he will come in to the barbershop and get one of us to interpret the saying for him. Like today he brought this one in all printed in this little notebook he carries around with him:
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
Some of us chimed in and gave him our thoughts on the subject. I asked him if he understood. He said he kinda did, but he had no idea that Mickey Mouse's dog was so smart.
Tales of Harper, short stories and poems
about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle
Pluto: the ruler of the underworld, or a demoted planet. I wonder which Mickey was thinking of when he named his dog.
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