"The Parson" tells of a frontier preacher and horse trader who hoodwinks a stranger into buying a bad nag whose "ribs and shoulder bones stuck out / He looked like walkin' death".
First the bad news: Prime rib, often called a standing rib roast and sold by the number of bones you desire, is not cheap.
She had been minding a grow house in Sonoma since being laid up with a half-dozen broken ribs after a bad motorcycle accident.
Here are some of the things that bothered him: sniffles, an infected toe, piles, earache, palpitations, itchy scalp, bruised ribs, sinking stools, bad stomach (lots), sore tendons, catarrh, broken dental bridge, and a broken bone in his hand.
"I was injured but it wasn't bad - I broke eight ribs, punctured my lungs and broke my back in a few places - but the worst thing was I had a week in hospital and then another week off work.
My asthma went really bad and I had weak ribs at the time.
"After breaking the ribs her breathing got bad, she developed pneumonia and died soon".
Hanging to one side is something he has often done in the past, a bad habit that predates his broken rib of last year.
The ribs and greens were not bad, but the sweet potato pie was excellent.
The idea is that only pure foods blend well -- think about pureeing the majority of "bad" foods -- pizza, burritos and barbecue ribs.
