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Show 26 started to go well for Stanley Pell. He bootlegged whiskey and made his own beer, he bought out his partners and axaxxx dressed his family good, he always had money and he owned stocks and bonds and property south of town that was now woods xaxxkxxaxxxxxxxsa though he happened to know that Ford planned an expansion plant outside Detroit that was destined xxx for Erie and when that plant came his land was going to boom. He bought apartments down by the Bay and collected rent, sometimes he even sold xa some furniture. He had three sons, Six little Stan, Jon, and David who would take care of the store and then go off to college to become a doctor and a lawyer and a politician, and two little daughters, the last of which, Helen, had her christening on the same day as the grand opening of PELL'S FURNITURE which even the Irish Mayor xxx who bought his whiskey from Stanley showed up for and gave a Helen a brand new Liherty Silver Dollar. Afternoons Stanley ixxk drove his Model A out Old French Road to his woods south of town and thought about how good everything was, how good change was, how good money was, and wished he could get Esther to tear down the chicken coops in the backyard that made his house look like a poor farm. Maybe they could even move. "We need a change," said Stanley. "Change comes soon enough," said Esther, "without bringing it on yourself." "We can control change!" shouted Stanley. "The wind kicks up," said Esther, "or the world turns one degree too much, what do you have? Pffft. Rubbed out. You control nothing." Stanley knew there was something wrong with that logic, he xx just didn't know anything about xaxxx. logic. Besides, Esther spent her whole day in the house cleaning and taking care of the kids like a good wife, how could she know anything. Opinions were for men. Look what happened when women started voting. Pffft. No bars. No liquor stores. The wind didn't cause that. 2 And how did she think he made his money, selling furniture? "Things may not always be so good," said Sxxxxx Esther quietly. "But we own this house, we have the rabbits and the chickens and a small garden. If something goes wrong, we have good neighbors . You want to move, Mr. Pell, move without me." "Unk," said Stanley. He tried to raise his hands but only |