Odd jobs

(1994 October)

Have been talking to Jerry who works here when he isn't working for AB. Told about butchering 40 of their chickens. Chopped off heads and hung them on a tree limb, then slit down and stripped off skin, feathers and all. Then wife cans them and did 40 quarts today. In Canada where they lived before here they killed a lot of quail, driving them against a wall and wringing their necks! He wrote down his name ... [in German but he is] Swiss. He is short and pleasant and has had many jobs including showing Mark Twain's house to tourists but says Betsy Thatchers's house is more of a show house and in better condition. He doesn't like to work at AB very well - so noisy with big sheets of metal banged on, etc.