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About 1900
FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
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... a word you could hear a mile. Then slowly walk to the other end & yell the next word of the sermon. Then go down in the lower end of his coat tail, come out with a handerchief, wipe his sweating brow, gradually pick up speed & volume until he nished an hour or more later. Dismissed the Brethern about 1 PM. [By the] Time Lee & I walked home we were tired & hungry as wolves.
One true story the dear old minister told I will never forget. He was raised in Arkansas. Said his daddy had an old razorback sow with a head & nose like a tooth pick. He called the Arkansas hog “Arkansas Toothpick”. Well he was just a boy & this particular old ...
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... [hog] would get into the corn eld every day. They could not nd a hole in the rail fence. So the Ole Man detailed the boy to nd how that sow was getting in. So one day he followed her at a great distance around over the pasture. Keeping low and out of her sight. The eld had a steep cliff along the back side next to the pasture. After several hours of cautious manuevering the old sow carefully eased to a big tree that had a huge grape vine growing in it. The old sow had chewed the grape vine off near the ground. She took the vine in her mouth, gripped it tight & backed up as far as she could. Then suddenly ran toward the edge of the cliff. She swung out over the eld fence. Then turned ...