Laying eyes for the first time on the Olsen boys, you’d never guess they were brothers, much less twins. They were un-identical twins, obviously, in the way that raccoons and skunks, having identical body parts, are un-identical. Ollie, who was older than Hedrick by a hair, was long, lean and shambling. When Ollie was walking at you his overalls looked like they were hanging on a clothesline in a lazy breeze. Roan col­ored with an extra long neck with a protruding Adam’s apple with a scraggly head of hair topped with a cowlick shaped like a lopsided rooster’s comb, Ollie was bashful around the womenfolk and the town fel­lahs as well, them not being above ribbing him over his appearance and all.

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