At the end of Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People, " a Bible salesman steals the main character's wooden leg.

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Morris was enormously good-natured despite hideous scars on his right arm (the result of boiling water scalding it when he was a youngster) and having to wear a wooden leg (the result of a carriage accident).

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His family's insurance would pay only for a "stubby, " a wooden artificial leg without a bendable knee.

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