A Wife Kinda Like Lincoln's Wife

One of the things what I learned about Abraham Lincoln were that his wife were a little nuts. He put up with her and run the nation and the war. He were a good man. We had a man right here in Harper what had a wife kinda like that. She were spoilt by her daddy what owned about half the town. The man's name were Graham Hickenlooper and his wife were named Mary Lou Hickenlooper. She never were what you would call pretty but she were passable and she were pretty rich, when she were young.  Some peoples said Graham married her for her money. Graham were tall and handsome and must have lifted weights cause when he mowed the yard with his shirt off he looked like Charles Atlas in them comic book adds. He may have married her for money, but he soon found out there warn't enough money in the world to make it worth his while. Mary Lou turned out to be a hippoconderack and a chain-smoker and a mint julep drinker. She smoked so much while lying on the sofa she burned little holes in her shirts and used a garbage lid turned upside down as a ashtray. I'll tell more tomorrow, Dorothy wants me to stir the stew on the stove while she runs next door to take Nelda Bellweather some chicken noodle soup. Nelda's down with a cold.