One of my older Balk cousins related this story recently. He is one of the few who can remember Grandpa Joseph Balk.
At that time bananas were sold not by the bunch but by the stalk. One day as he and Grandma were headed to town to buy groceries, he told Robert do not eat any bananas while we`re gone because Grandma needs them for something. Robert being a onery kid helped himself to a few bananas. When the grandparents returned not much was said about bananas, Grandpa told all within hearing that someone told him poison was put in the bananas and anyone eating them would kill over dead. Robert spent the next several hours getting sicker and sicker. Of course it was all a made up tale and it was Robert`s conscience hurting him. Grandpa made him suffer more that way than whipping him for disobeying. Ole Joe tho not highly educated had child psychology down to a science.
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