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"My land! And they call it the MUMPS?"
"That's what Miss Mary Jane said."
"Well, what in the nation do they call it the MUMPS
for?"
"Why, because it IS the mumps. That's what it
starts with."
"Well, ther' ain't no sense in it. A body might
stump his toe, and take pison, and fall down the well,
and break his neck, and bust his brains out, and somebody
come along and ask what killed him, and some
numskull up and say, 'Why, he stumped his TOE.