“Well, he got up the next morning buddy and the uppers of both shoes had busted loose all the way ‘round. The leather busted right apart from the stitchin’ to the soles! He come over and showed ‘em to me. I’d never seen anything like it! I asked him what in the world he had done!
I said, ‘Did you do it just like I told you?’
He said, ‘Yeah Carl, I laced ‘em up, packed ‘em as full of beans as I could, wet ‘em good, and set ‘em to stretch overnight, just like you told me.’
I said, ‘Wet ‘em?! I didn’t say nothin’ about wettin’ the beans!’
He said, ‘Well Carl, you always soak beans before you cook ‘em!’
I said, ‘Lord have mercy, what did cookin’ beans have to do with this?!’
That cliff ape had soaked them beans, buddy. Well they went to expandin’ you see, overnight, and somethin’ had to give! It give alright! Both shoe tops give completely loose from the soles!”