Subject:Knothole
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Entry 2046
I know of a man and his wife had a misunderstanding, and the man he decided that.he was going to leave home. He didn't want to strike his wife, so for that cause he left her alone. He went away and stayed a long, long time. So after awhile he stayed so long somebody asked his wife as to the whereabouts of her husband. And she said, "My husband has been gone quite a good while. Where he is I am unable to say." This was a very old-aged person that was talking to this woman. So she says to her, "Child, come to my house tomorrow and I will tell you something that will do you good." So the next day came and this girl went to this woman's home. The old lady she set down and began to talk. She said, "Now, Anna, when you go home, I want you to search your home and see if you can find a knothole in your home. And if you do find it, you take your pencil and mark all around this hole. And after doing that, every morning for nine mornings go to this hole and call your husband by name. On the ninth morning tell him that you means what you say - you want him to come home. And he will come." So it was done and he really came. [Cf. preceding margin-title Keyhole.]