A letter from May 1986

A visitor, a lost-and-found dog, and a man who lost two toes

3 min

Agnes is glad a friend has come to see her. He tells her how he fell and couldn't get up, how his dog lay beside him and later died, and how he lost two toes in the hospital in Rice Lake. She says it was the first time she'd heard about it.

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What Agnes says

Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.

And I went, you know, I went to Rice Lake here. And so I let out whatever I had. to the girls and you and the rest of them. And so he moved in there. There's one man and a lady.

The man had access to it. He was a swollen face and everything. So the mother, they didn't have the car, I think. So the lady of the house with this saw tooth, he had, and he went to see.

doctors and the mother and the two dogs come over the man or the woman and I told your mother I said I've got to have a pair of shoes because the doctor I went to the doctor a little John one of the guys lived right next to Bali what you call it I'm not in Well, she's got a whole bunch of tints and stuff.

And the last one got married last spring, or this spring. And he told me all of them. And I was so glad that he come over here to meet, be here with me, and I said, well, for good little sake, I see my little sake.

I see my little job here. I was so happy over it, because he was always not. to me at the rice lake place where the kids ate me and we ate. And so he went with that room and like me and the rest of them, we went to eat dinner there, you know.

So he went to decide that's how I know him. And so afterwards we went to his room and he told me how he got his two toes cut off. two of them. One day he fell down and he couldn't get up.

And his best friend is a man or there is a old one the dog. He went and he laid down right next to him on the ground and this guy couldn't get up and the dog couldn't lift him up or nothing.

So the dog, in two days, he died right behind him. You see, he don't know how long he laid on the ground. He was wet and dirty and everything. And, you know, he didn't know how long he laid there on the ground.

And so finally, one of the kids says they didn't see him. So they come over to see him and there he goes on the ground in the thing like. So they got the ambulance and they hauled into Rice Lake.

So in Rice Lake, they took place, two toes. Well, that's the first time I heard about it. I never heard nothing before that, you know, from town.