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“I thought he means the phenobarb,” Russell said. “Christ, I got myself so much phenobarb I could nod off half the town without doing nothing else. No. Because, see, you dope them just before you load them up, i
“ ‘Dump this in their fuckin’ food,’ he says. ‘Give ’em fuckin’ all of it. Got any tomato soup? Get about twe
“He should’ve,” Frankie said.
“There’s very few guys,” Russell said, “shouldn’t’ve. ‘Look,’ he says, ‘heat it up and dump the oil in. Then pour it in their food and they’ll woof it down like champs. Otherwise, they won’t. Then, I guarantee it, you make sure them fuckin’ dogs can get out, fast, because that stuff’s go
“Them dogs,” Russell said, “all I could think of was when guys got dysentery the first time, you know? And they didn’t, they never had nothing like you get there, before that, and they didn’t know what was go
“Now the next thing I got to do,” Russell said, “I got to get that phenobarb into them dogs. ‘This’s kind of tricky,’ he tells me. ‘You got to take the water away from them by five o’clock, because them dogs, after the oil goes through them they’ll drink it all, and then we’ll fuckin’ drown in dogpiss. The trouble is, the last time I did this we give them the phenobarb about five, before we take the water away from them, and we really gave them a lot, because the time before that we didn’t give them enough and they got i
“I said to him,” Russell said, “I said: ‘Ke
“He’s worse’n fuckin’ Squirrel for making out off guys,” Russell said. “He shows up, right around midnight, he’s got three more dogs. I’m busting my ass all day, getting dogs ready, Ke
“These dogs, he tells me, ‘These’re little ones.’ He’s got a couple spaniels and a wire-haired. Tit right in, no sweat.’ So, we load them up. My dogs’re all dopey. He takes the front legs, I take back legs. My mother’s looking out of the window. Finally get all them dogs in. Stack them right up. I’m getting in the car, she opens the window. ‘That all of them?’ Yeah. ‘Good. Remember what I said.’ Right, and now I understand the old man a lot better, too. She shuts the window, bang.”
“You’re still better off’n I was,” Frankie said. “My mother, she used to come every week. Every single fuckin’ week, I’d, I used to sit on Sunday, and the first thing I hadda do was, I hadda go to Mass. Fuckin’ guy, every single fuckin’ week he talks about Dismas. Oh for Christ sake. Well, no. Some weeks he talks about beating off. Fu