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<p>“What is his history?” I inquired.</p>
<p>“Whiskey,” epitomized Judge Hoover. “That explains him.”</p>
<p>I was silent, but I did not accept the explanation. And so, when I had the chance, I asked old man Sellers, who browsed daily on my exchanges.</p>
<p>“Mike OBader,” said he, “was makin shoes in Montopolis when I come here goin on fifteen year ago. I guess whiskeys his trouble. Once a month he gets off the track, and stays so a week. Hes got a rigmarole somethin about his bein a Jew pedler that he tells evrybody. Nobody wont listen to him any more. When hes sober he aint sich a fool—hes got a sight of books in the back room of his shop that he reads. I guess you can lay all his trouble to whiskey.”</p>
<p>“Mike OBader,” said he, “was makin shoes in Montopolis when I come here goin on fifteen year ago. I guess whiskeys his trouble. Once a month he gets off the track, and stays so a week. Hes got a rigmarole somethin about his bein a Jew peddler that he tells evrybody. Nobody wont listen to him any more. When hes sober he aint sich a fool—hes got a sight of books in the back room of his shop that he reads. I guess you can lay all his trouble to whiskey.”</p>
<p>But again I would not. Not yet was my Wandering Jew rightly construed for me. I trust that women may not be allowed a title to all the curiosity in the world. So when Montopoliss oldest inhabitant (some ninety score years younger than Michob Ader) dropped in to acquire promulgation in print, I siphoned his perpetual trickle of reminiscence in the direction of the uninterpreted maker of shoes.</p>
<p>Uncle Abner was the Complete History of Montopolis, bound in butternut.</p>
<p>“OBader,” he quavered, “come here in 69. He was the first shoemaker in the place. Folks generally considers him crazy at times now. But he dont harm nobody. I spose drinkin upset his mind—yes, drinkin very likely done it. Its a powerful bad thing, drinkin. Im an old, old man, sir, and I never see no good in drinkin.”</p>