Samuel Reed Kept an Old Wooden Bat Behind the Pantry Door for Twenty Years

“Filed at twenty to seven,” he said.

“Judge signed it before he finished his coffee.”

He hooked his thumbs into his belt and let me read it standing in the chaff.

Injunction, Voss against Reed, restraining the sale or transfer of hay and forage from parcel 118 until the December hearing.

“That’s the whole winter cut,” I said.

“Any buyer who pays you can be named in the suit with him.”

I read it a second time.