Stick Furniture

This morning down at the barbershop Jackson Coldtree came in and was talking about the stick furniture business he has set up. He makes chairs, tables, bed posts, and a bunch of other furniture items all out of sticks he gathers in the woods. His pickup is usually filled with sticks of all kinds and shapes. Now, most of the stuff he makes is only suitable for the porch of a cabin or maybe even for inside a fishing cabin, but every now and again he comes out with a real work of art. Like this bedstead he made. I reckon it must have way over a hundred pieces of wood and he has sanded and polished it to perfection. We were teasing him about how his wife hates this kind of furniture. It is well known that when she was a youngster and a real pretty girl at that, she was a finalist in the Miss Harper contest and was considered the favorite until the swimsuit competition. She made the mistake of sitting in a wicker chair just before prancing onto the stage. I reckon I can see why she holds that against this kind of workmanship.

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