Saturday's Storyteller: "Jeffy picked the nose of the bust of Abraham Lincoln, which opened a secret door in Grandma's study."
by Belinda Roddie Jeffy picked the nose of the bust of Abraham Lincoln, which opened a secret door in Grandma's study. He had always had a strange inclination to do something wacky like that - in fact, when he had visited the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. back when he was six, he had wished greatly to pick the nose of the giant statue, similar to a particularly fun episode of Ren and Stimpy. For a long time, Grandma had kept a bust of Van Buren, mostly because she found his mutton chops to be, sarcastically, endearing. But after Jeffy's pleas to see Honest Abe's nasal cavity violated, his granny was eager to oblige. The young boy had known about his grandma's study since he was seven, when he had seen her disappear seemingly into the wall of the small room where she kept what he called a decoy library. Her study had taller shelves of copious volumes and tomes, most of them beautifully bound, swirling in a spiral formation around her desk. Jeffy shuffled over t...