Mountain Man: Week 1-p.23 #5

Uncle Marvin is a man like no other. He is somewhere in his 60's and it shows. On any given day you can find him wearing wrangler jeans, a short-sleeve, plaid, pearl snap shirt and camo moccasins. He always carries aroung a paper towel in his back pocket and brings it out to wipe his nose, more from habit than because his nose actually needs wiping. He is known as half-a-day-Marvin because he only works part of the day at his cane factory in the ozarks. He makes wine but doesn't drink it. When he speaks everyone stops to listen...some because they know he has a lot of wisdom built up and some because it is so entertaining to hear his mountian speech..."we wus back indat holla an' I was startin' in on hurtin' sumtin fierce cus I didn't take my rat poisnin' this mornin'. WOOSH it was cold an' I knew i'd better get myself home! before I got kilt out there." Every morning his wife, Betty, gets up and fixes him fried eggs, biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage, toast, and one glass of orange juice, which he pronounces "oorAnge juice". Marvin would give the shirt off his back to anyone who needed it, but heaven help those who get on his bad side!