Literature
Gentleman Bill and the Christmas Letter-1st draft
Gentleman Bill and the Christmas Letter
By dhbraley
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This is a story about William Harold Reginald Bartlett, the 4th; however, most people that knew him called him Gentleman Bill. He was a “humble surveyor of the urban and rural jungles” he would joke to anyone that listened (in other words, he was usually broke). It wasn’t that he was slow-witted, but he had a …well…a unique perspective about the world around him. Still, he was a kind, likeable sort, keeping to the manners his mama taught him as a small Bill, and later reinforced by Robert and Betsy Pillmat, the farmers who raised Bill after his folks had