330
Bluff?
Man jumped over the
Wall?
Ledge?
Cliff? Oh yeah cliff yeah that would be better.
Yeah.
Cliff'd be better.
Valley.
Well you call it a
let's see, what would that be
Uh the Cumberland Gap?
Yeah I think I yeah I think I
heard of it, I don't know where it's at, located.
Gap?
Yeah, I've heard gap spoken
quite a few times in my life.
I guess it'd be
a
place where they went to, this
country
and would be uh
place to get out of
to go out in the wilderness like and
get out of it, would be out of a
into
opening, wouldn't it?
Get out of the gap I'd say.
I don't know whether that's right or what it would mean
mean or not
but that would be my
I imagine getting out of
and the opening where you get out of
{X}
you'd be trying to
{X}
like going in the
gap like
in in in
sort of enclosure
then when you get out opening you'd be out
out of that's what I think about it.
A little canoe?
You mean a a
great big
piece, or just
Trough?
Make a little trough?
Uh
{NS}
I just don't know.
Oh n- yeah oh notch
{NW}
yeah notch
on the
there'd be a notch of every man he killed they had to make-
he'd make a notch.
Cut.
Ain't that what you talking about?
Yeah I've heard mm-hmm.
Got one more notch.
On my gun.
Dock.
Uh
well let's see
I guess a
yard, shipping yard
be a kind of
where the where the boats pull in and out
Matter what?
Oh I never heard of that.
Waterfall.
Roads.
Concrete road.
Pavement.
Well they have asphalt
roads and uh
concrete roads and
and uh
Mm-hmm.
Yeah blacktop.
too that's what we called a called a
{X}
blacktop.
That's what they call this one run up in front of the
house here you know
It's a blacktop road.
And uh
{NS}
they have to
build a little hole for the
{X}
one of these interstates
wears out
{X}
you know places do on 'em they
have to patch 'em up.
Way back when I was young
they had toll gates
and all would grab
{X}
I told you I remember 'em building
highway over here and this one over here too
west side of us
both thirty-one
one thirty-one
{X}
one thirty-one east.
And uh
they would just go out a pipe road, had
little houses on the side, had a toll gate.
Would come down over that rock
that man'd let it up
and he'd charge you a dime to go over it in your buggy
and a quarter
for a wagon and team.
And that's where they
they
serviced their pipe
they'd hire help to
haul the gravel and put on it.
without the money they got out of this
toll you know.
That's where it we come up
in my young life I've shoveled gravel many a day
{D: haul that}
{X}
and it started right down here
at my
tobacco patch.
And
{X}
down to that
ninety-six
Was Arno Pike
we called and we'd work it
we'd haul
gravel all up and down these
creeks
And then
spread 'em out on the road
Well, this turnpike. It's
paved it's a paved- paved thing
{NS}
it uh I imagine you've heard of that
we build a they build a
bridges over Tennessee River
two different places I know of. I've ferried across.
Before they build it.
And uh
they they
that turnpike is
they'll charge
so much for a car
The man sits in a little house 'til they get that
bridge paid for then they
they quit, they don't charge you any money, it's free
that's the way they build 'em, Tennessee does.
Across the Tennessee River now
I know two that are built across like that.
Just
let it pay for itself
then
then it's free
I never will forget one time we was going
{NW}
I love to be living, that's all
brilliant thing to be living
we were going down to the bayou
Nineteen forty-one
trying to get on that job down there
bunch of uh men I had a whole bunch of men in my car
and they had suitcases
tied on
and uh
tool boxes
and things we'd go
going down trying to get on this
{X}
there's five or six of us
in the car, can't remember exactly
well either five or six men
and we'd get all the way down at night
and we come to this
they're building this bridge across the Tennessee River
and we had to ferry across.
In the mean time, just before I got to there
my hose one of the hose on my car it busted.
And the car's about to burn up.
So when this ferrying across
my car was the last one they let
get on, there's about
I'd say ten or twelve of us on the ferry
It carried across
and them others just went right on, course
{X}
{X}
and then
I pulled
{D: Wallace}
it's a guy that
drove this ferry told me to
pour water he had a cup there
he keep telling me talking about this
pour water saying that would cool it off
going down
{X}
about two and a half
three miles to
little town
he said I can
if I can get 'em
up they'll probably be in their beds
won't be nobody up but
if I can wake somebody up there in that little
town maybe they can get somebody
to get up and get me a fan belt.
And uh
I started out
{X}
up that bank
you did you ever go across there?
See that ferry knocked water all over
the gravel bank there
gravel bank, but you climb up
as you go up that ferry.
So like about that steep, goes up that bank.
Well my car tipped down, we had so much of a load on it
and now to get parts, you-
you've heard that you know
you know that much I imagine
car gets hot it won't
run good
and it wasn't running too good, and
it choked down
and I didn't have the hand brakes on, just
foot brake
and that darn boat done
backed off and long gone, in the dark now we're sitting in the dark
left us out in the dark you see
And I had to hold that
{NS}
brake with my left foot
And them men jumped out over there like
{X}
me to death come every one of my men jumped out over and jumped off and run
left us
and I finally got my car started
held brake with my left foot and got it started
and finally got got it climbed up out of this
and my heart was just beating, I could hear it just
beating
was about that
making that kinda racket I was
expecting that thing to go back up in the river
{NS}
choked down
about slipped off back in there with me
Never scared in my life I said no never go across another
ferry if I live to be a million years old
I ain't I wouldn't go
across one no way shape or fashion
They went off
{X}
{X}
left me.
And I I rode by 'em when I got
started you know?
And they hollered hey hey hey
wait a minute we want to ride with you, I said
no I'm going on.
Y'all will just have to walk.
Course I stopped
I let 'em walk about a
quarter of a mile, I reckon
something
like that just mean
I thought they sure did give me a dozen
it wasn't cost 'em nothing to go with me, I didn't charge 'em nothing
Or stayed with me
{X}
or hollered they all hollered that
scared me so bad I just couldn't
I don't know where I
{X}
said anything to the man with the
ferry or not. But he what he
all he had on his mind was rushing back and getting another load of cars coming across
with him you know.
They ought to wait to be sure that
man's everybody's going off
Yeah.
he takes away.
Pulls out.
And that thing acts like me is missing
so I didn't think he'd ever get across with us.
I think
I tell you he carried way down below
where we went we
going off in it
course they
they knew how to
turn you know
hit the place there and come out
and it cost you
next time I went back another trip
went across I went across that there
bridge it cost uh
I believe it's
a dollar for
for myself and the
car and
I believe it's fifty cents a piece for
each passenger you have, I believe that's what it was.
I made them pay for themselves we come back. I didn't go back
across that ferry.
But I never did get any job down there.
My wife said you're gonna starve to death.
We
children
{X}
little fellows you know
{X}
and she said
I spent all the money I can get my hands on
{X}
we didn't have I never did
{X}
{D: crop one patch of cows just like we did}
{NS}
Well it's a
it'd just
pulled off a
side road
For the road?
Yeah it would
call it a gravel road or
something like that
off the main road I guess you could call it the gravel road.
That would be pitch I guess.
Kinda like a tar
it's
{X}
something that's what sticks the
gravel rock
together, what you're talking about
Mm-hmm I think it's
took you
just take all the
all the
flesh off your bones if you were to get some of it on there.
It's the hottest stuff you ever saw in your life when they pour
pour it you know
And
it's uh
See
uh that pitch
and uh
I guess asphalt
it's kind of an asphalt
And and pitch
{X}
{X}
underneath concrete
don't you know a lot of 'em we got a lot here
state up here just pure concrete.
They last
long time but they don't rise as good as they say
these asphalt roads do.
The concrete's kinda rough
they have to have a little
{NS}
you know little
{X}
place
just blocks like of
so often you know to
{X}
keep from
busting all
to pieces {X}
fan
and you can tell a car
hitting 'em in little places
makes a little
{X}
going over 'em
course they they they last
for a long time
I guess a lot longer than these other ones
{X}
asphalt it
dries so much better
{NS}
heap better.
How'd you come over here? Did you come by Peytonsville or did you
did you come out through Peytonsville over here?
Peytonsville?
{X}
uh away at uh
Road I've
{X}
Uh-huh you could come right on out there
that's good road
out here, blacktop roads all the way
all the way here
Up 'til there.
You just
hit that pavement road
come right on, you run over
one of the two little stores over there
come on down to this last one
and then turn to your right
and come on up here
about
three four hundred
yards
then you turn back
to your left and you come head right in
straight into Arno.
That one
goes straight
through here from Arno back to
way it goes to Harpeth the way it's four thirty-one.
Lewisburg Pike.
But you turn off over right over there
go down a steep hill
kind of right
{X}
and go down this little
store I'm telling you about then you
turn your left just
stay right on that road
and you'll come out over there at that truck stop.
Right in front of it.
You'll run right up in front of it.
So yeah
if you've never been there, that would be your
have you been going down and coming out ninety-six?
To here then turn off on Arno Road, have you?
This would be close to
to you
course you know you
you'd be
you're close right there at that
truck stop, aren't you?
And it's, what
uh
at least
two and a half three mile ain't it
back down to ninety-six?
On the interstate, something like that?
A little closer but you might better
you might
head off on the wrong road
{X}
now in the daytime
if you come back in the morning I
you
come that way, I'd come that way.
Course you can see you know
and then if you head
{X}
but you wouldn't want to stop, you'd just
stay on that pavement road
'til you get down to that little
store.
And just turn there
come on up, then turn back to your left turn right
{X}
store there on the corner
and you go up and turn back left and you run right up
come up a little hill back to Arno
And you say you didn't have no
trouble finding the
{X}
at all?
Smithson boy.
Was his home when you got there?
And you remember the
{X}
Mm-hmm.
That boy that
says his horse won it
Uh-huh.
Wallace won it.
{X}
Yeah I forget who he said was riding his horse.
One one one
{X}
she a good looking girl?
I mean Saturday night.
He told me the girl's name, but I
I didn't know
said
she is had a
must have been the trainer
or
he always give her whatever she want
he's trying to get him up
get where he can sell it for a big lot of money
what he's trying to do.
I told him it wouldn't take no
{X}
but he begged me into it
I never got a dime of it
in my life
I've had it all my life
sure never did get a dime out of it.
Yeah-huh.
I told 'em I said
I just ain't gonna take it.
He said oh you are
{X}
write you the same one you had last year.
I no I ain't gonna take it
then said yeah I'll let you
give it to these other people,
They get- I don't ever get nothing.
He said well this year you might could be lucky, you might get
terrible killing out of it, I said
well dadgummit
let me have the thing and I'll sign it.
Might be
{X}
years
so much rain we might you know
might be
{X}
to get that much
collected.
It's
tobacco insurance on my tobacco crop, a thousand dollars.
Per acre.
On
I reckon I have about fifteen hundred dollars in the patch.
That would be nothing you know.
If we had to
get tore to pieces destroy it.
And we we we have hailstorms and winds
it might it might hit us again
too you know, it gets up big
gets up large
you never have seen any you said
grow have you
It just up we top it up
about the size of my head
cut the top out of it.
Yeah. And then it's
{D: spray all out here then we get
six fif- twelve fifteen feet high
you didn't cut the top out of it.
But you cut out a lot of it and
Throw it away.
Then these top leaves
come over and
make great big leaves and what you'll
{X}
you top 'em
then
we cut our stalks and
{C: tape overlaid}
spear 'em on a stick, but out there
in your country
in Georgia, Florida, and
North Carolina and South Carolina
they
pull the leaves off.
Pull 'em off the stalk
{X}
pull off one or two at
three or something
the bottom
and they take 'em in
I reckon still
{X}
string around 'em a pole or a stick and hang 'em up in the little
drying house.
Dry 'em up and they they start to sell 'em about the
middle of July.
{X}
Georgia and uh
Florida.
Then they get through with that those two countries
they come over in South Carolina and east
North Carolina to start.
Come this a way 'til they
get through with all that
they got a
eastern belt in North Carolina, middle belt and old belt.
North Carolina really sells
I suspect
three or four time much as all the other Georgia and
And Florida
together made in
South Carolina too.
I hope I never been out there to Salem
but that's where we
going away he wants to wait and go
he said if I would never
go back no more.
He wants to see lot his friends been going out
there this Winston
North Carolina
way out on the coast, I don't know, I never been there.
But he wants to go up there and stay
two three three four days with some of his friends up there
{X}
And we gonna stay the boy that I
one of my best friends I ever had
his house for a few days, then we're going up on the coast. The boy has a
trailer house
{X}
out of glass
goes right down to the water
spend night gonna stay
several nights with him out there on the water
{X}
So we'll
{X}
{X}
nothing happen
we gonna have a good time
I really enjoy cuz I probably never will get to see him anymore.
He ain't come here for thirty-some odd years
we worked together, he and I.
And they retired year before last
he won't ever be back,
{D: If I can just comes on}
visit
Yeah
ever do it.
He getting old, he
Last year
{X}
he's
{X}
which I'll be sixty-seven this year and he'll be sixty-six.
When you get that old
so many little things can
happen to you just overnight
And you just
probably may not get to make it there at all
nothing don't
{X}
I still plan on I don't care
what it costs, I'm gonna go.
I sure had a good time out there
his wife just as good
{X}
my wife coulda been, never was
I'd never seen her or talked to her on the phone
a world of times you know
and
never seen any of his
children you know he had two sons and a daughter.
Course they all married and
daughter worked, when I went out there she
my baby wasn't either
girl the same age as her
and
we had a wonderful time.
She every time she went to cook a meal she
always come ask me what'd I feel like I could eat
for lunch or
breakfast
or dinner.
Eat anything you cook
I'll eat some of it.
They eat different than we do. They eat
they have grits nearly every meal
out there
do you have it in Georgia, too?
Y'all have a lot of grits?
Well they had it dinner
{X}
out there every every meal
I ate a lot with 'em, they
thought they had to have it and I could eat a little, too.
Well I'm losing your time. You
you
better
go ahead, I ain't gotta get talking now.
Side road.
Mm-hmm.
Private road.
I'd say.
Goes up to
somebody's home.
Sidewalks.
Pavement?
Yeah I'd think so. I
it it would be
on up on the pavement or sidewalk, either one, say one would
what you might call it
I've
I've called 'em both.
But most of the time call 'em sidewalks.
Where people walk.
I'd pick a rock up and throw at it.
Stone?
Threw at him
Not at home.
Cream?
Um in
well
uh
we we we we uh
skim it we would
{X}
the people does you know have just
get pure cream
the way my wife does is
to put in the coffee
have some for somebody but we hardly don't do much now
or cream?
It'd just it's like a just
pure rich and it
you you thinking of
another name that you
want we call it?
Oh
I I drink
I I drink my milk
straight or
coffee without
without milk?
Or something
Uh with
uh
cream
Yeah with with milk.
I just
pure coffee I guess you'd call it.
Straight
Black, some of 'em called it black
I'd call it
straight.
But I didn't
most
{X}
got a sister won't don't drink no
use no sugar, cream, or nothing
but I have to have a little sugar. I can drink without cream, I hardly use cream, but
I got to have a little sugar in mine.
But she works for the
government
for years and years 'til she
retired
they'd take her a little
coffee breaks you know and my daughter worked down at
{X}
in Nashville
just like little working ten years
And she married
she didn't even drink coffee
before she started down there and she got
{X}
{X}
{D: drank herself once every so often}
She might eat some popcorn you ain't gonna pop me no corn
Walking
how now?
Straight at
at me or
straight to me
Toward me.
Walking towards me.
I'd say he's coming straight at me.
In into one of my
friends I haven't seen in a long time
I
I reckon
home
We- that bar-
That barks away from home?
Fox. Fox barks.
You know you've you've heard of you know foxes, don't you?
They bark come in bark
you know you came barking out at night
is that what you
Were speaking about?
Gun
Uh
Uh well
I I would take a
something to get 'em with? Uh uh uh
Huh?
What what
if I was going hunting?
Well he's half bird dog half shepherd
the black one
And he he he'll point rabbits
birds, chickens, anything
Squirrels
And he'll run, he go
{X}
he's scared of a gun
and lightning and thunder and he
can't keep him when you shoot he'll run off
{X}
make him come back to me
Whitish looking.
Glass eyes.
Mm-hmm.
That's what I'd call it.
I don't know. I guess
I guess you I think you just
naturally born that way, I don't think
anything has happened to her.
I don't believe I've seen it too.
I don't know enough
it may be now
we we used I tell you what we used to
call the horses we drove at night you know
uh sometimes you get one of the moon eyed
Uh-huh and couldn't see
how to go at night.
Other words a real horse
natured horse
Had good eyes right
{X}
you can just
{X}
wrap 'em around
{X}
{X}
Spatter board, that's
where
out in front they had a little board about that high put
in front of your feet you put your
feet
out there in the
I call 'em the spatter board.
And I'd wrap 'em around down there and that horse would
carry me anywhere in the world.
Bring me back.
And I wouldn't have to guide him.
At all.
But now you get a one I got one one time a fellow
got
his horse want me to
drive his horse we going he's going with me we going to see two girls
and he wanted to drive his horse. He
come to my home and he says this
this
he rode his horse, he didn't have a buggy
he says let's let's drive my horse in your buggy tonight.
Well I didn't know about the darn horse, and
and I said well alright.
Don't make no difference to me if it's
safe oh he's safe
yeah
drove off
well
him and another fellow
walked the girls house close to the church
and I carried a girl home a good
long ways, I went on
got the girl and took her on a good piece
and I find out after that he was the one and he couldn't see nothing, he'd just run off falling
down a gully and
{X}
everywhere and he couldn't do nothing. I couldn't put him
lines on the spatter board that night
or wrap around my whip
And he that horse run couldn't see
{X}
uh blind
real blind at night, couldn't see nothing.
And they called 'em moon-eyed.
That's what they called 'em.
I never had
driven one
before, didn't know what the thing was but that's what
they called 'em moon-eyed.
My neighbor was gonna scare me that night.
And this other fellow
{X}
he had
the fellow this this girl lived in another direction.
And they
took the girls home they took off and run
and got to I had to go through the woods
{X}
actual home
Great big woods
I went through
And uh
{NS}
way back in that woods
here you know when I come through there gonna
grab my horse
{D: holler for it}
{X}
I didn't come
{D: the other way}
{X}
brothers
she wanted to go to her brother's that night that Sunday night
so I carried her with us
due east they they went west
started way back west
{X}
two or three oh clock we
{X}
I never did come
he come in that night, I just
took it old horse out my buggy and
hitched him
{X}
barn
He'd come in that room
{X}
about
three oh clock
got on his horse rode it home.
Said never
{X}
I just
down there on
{X}
I knew it, I heard them talking, I said
I didn't hear nothing
but she just wanted to go to her
brother's
{X}
back home to her mother.
But we went up there.
Later good little while, you know, I think I
ten thirty maybe eleven come in
I sic 'em on him.
{X}
well it'd just call it you
you mean the just uh
stray dog come up and
And a
I'd say well
he's a shepherd or he's a
cur dog or he's a
hound or he's a bird dog, or he's a
{NS}
a feist
or
Just a little bitty small
dog
That's uh that's uh what you call like that
black in his mind, sick head
short
and the old dog out there is a shepherd.
You see
his hair used to be that long
course a lot of it came out.
Some ladies run over him last year and crooked him up.
Never has got over it.
And the bird dog
this dog
mammy
my
son got a bird dog got this
dog
mammy
and then he's
got another new boy lives
Nashville he keeps
one they hunt
birds
You've heard of bird hunting, haven't you?
You may have been bird hunting with someone
maybe
they killed quite a few birds, we have
a big bird supper every
spring
they killed quite a few
{X}
it's just a lot of
{X}
to it
They they're like him out there
now he was
going with me he just
did it we went back up there on the
{X}
king
{X}
morning
I walk in the field
checking fences
getting
{X}
cut this
piece of hay
some of 'em had bloomed down there I was getting 'em cutting 'em
toting 'em out
and he
{NS}
oh and he was kinda like
{X}
just as quiet as
{X}
on it
but I knew
I I was pretty sure the rabbit
I said get it
he jumped in and this rabbit
come out
he can't run he's so big you know
know how big he gets
he can't run forever but he run a little
piece and then he'll give him up
but he would try his best. He'd catch a groundhog
took it bring him in the yard and eat some
Makes noise now you don't get as many.
I
why I put that chain on him
{X}
sister when they moved
down there
{X}
{X}
Franklin
she give Aunt
{X}
game chickens
that
her brother had give her
I didn't want to bring 'em up here, I tell you
he just didn't like the looks of 'em, he
he knew they didn't belong here.
And I believe gonna kill every one of 'em he just
he just walked behind it
and they'd cackle and carrying on
and he'd
then he
jump try to catch 'em
{NS}
I whipped him
then took him and hitched
{X}
two three days
Hitched him I put that
add a little chain on him that
a a ring and got one link on it and
{X}
and
well I might as well have killed him
he just dropped his head just give up you know he just
wanna sleep
{X}
oh he thought he's killed
I went out there one late one afternoon
I said now son I'm gonna turn you loose
{D: keep cool}
now
but I don't want you to bother them chickens now
he went back straight back laid down where he'd been laying
outside his little house he went
get up and come in anymore
laid down
and I come on in the house he was laying there last
I seen when he got up that night and left
outside but he never has brought 'em
I I you seen a
he finally laid down out there
I make I can make him lay down
he hates to do it but he'll
finally
lay down.
They're smart. Bird dogs smartest dog on earth.
Training you can really train 'em.
I've had some that
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shepherds are
good ones too
I used to have a shepherd rode with me everywhere I went.
In my buggy then I
after I bought a car he'd
drive with me then somebody called him out and
shot him one night.
Yeah.
Killed him.
Killed him.
I just don't know.
I wasn't there. I had gone off
to my sister's to spend the night
my daddy and them said they heard the gun
fire, heard him heard him
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they find him laying up in the road the next morning.
They just
some mean young boys didn't
like him you know, wanted to
wanted get shut up
I wouldn't
I'm
I had a man ask me he go get
the cows every afternoon by himself
wouldn't even have to tell him go get 'em, bring 'em up
keep 'em down there before you got through milking
used to stand by first time milking
in the fence
corner
He'd keep them cows there 'til we got 'em in, then he'd come on
on up
lay down over there
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he wouldn't let 'em they'd graze off you know grazing
he'd get around and make 'em
drive 'em back.
And then he'd lay down out there
wait 'til we got through, then he
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I had the fellow tell me just
begged me to price him
what would it take for him
I said
well I wouldn't take a million dollar
for him.
I wouldn't have, either.
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over there myself, I'd go everywhere.
I think a lot of
Will bite you.
Bit the mailman.
Bit.
Mm-hmm.
Get her some Coke. You'd rather have a Coke, wouldn't you?
Uh
Yeah I'll drink a little Coke.
Well bring me tea.
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drink
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every day now
I didn't for two years, but I don't
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I'm gonna die, I know
I might have a spell and die from pneumonia
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bad luck
But I hate not
eating nothing I enjoy
Bull.
Well
that's what my
folks always called 'em
but the bull
male cow
my mother but I don't mind that word called bull in my life
when she always said ma- male
I guess.
That's what you mean isn't it? Male cow.
Oxen?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah I've seen one.
Drag logs with 'em
They they'd work 'em I have a
wood stuff
across everything in front
chest like a
we have a collar on the mules the horse
and uh
have tracks in that thing that pull
that mind 'em you know
they said just
I never did own one, never did
but they they used to make logs with 'em.
Strong they said.
Well
a team of oxen I guess.
I guess you'd call it a team
that's what we called a team pair of mules you know, a team.
Hitch you on a team of oxen.
That's just a big steer you know
What they were, the oxen, is
a big steer.
Baby calf.
Huh?
Little heifer.
A little bull.
Calve.
Come fresh.
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Animals I've ridden?
Horses.
Or mules.
Ponies.
Something.
Mare.
Stud.
Stallion.
Well
I guess she'd call 'em
stallions.
Probably.
I got throwed off.
Throwed.
Off.
I've got throwed off.
One time one throwed me off
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young mule and
throwed me off and that singletree
trace came wrapped around one of my feet
And he drug me around and around
for about fifteen to
minutes maybe twenty.
Just around and around and around.
And I didn't ever lose my head, always my
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he'd have drug me to death
drug my brains out
if he run you know, but
I just kept on
steady him what to do and how to do it
I just hope that was the last time
finally I said well
I'm gonna give a quick jump
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holler
and he'll jump
and maybe that trace'll
come off of my hand
always want to
see the hand stick up about that high for
up over the top
hang string
Over the collar.
And I just stick that ring
there
they uh
traces over each handle you know and that's what
my foot
leg wrapped around in
quick when he throwed me
and and there's
dragging me around and around and around.
And he was young mule, just three years old, too, just break me.
To ride good.
And I gave that quick jerk, he jumped
and that
ring jumped off of that hang
unraveled
then he just
stop
stood there and looked at me.
I walked
led him good piece
and I said well
son you gonna have to tote me, I just ain't gonna walk.
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lead you in
I got on he bucked
for
several hundred yards
trying to get me off, but I stayed
I just tucked those reins in
and chains and
and just
laid 'em over there and and
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anything like that but have 'em I got leg got wrapped around something and just
fell off
wouldn't have hurt him.
Pushed 'em up on his neck further
and I kept him
two more years
working.
I rode him every day
back and forth to work.
Field
he never did try to throw me no more.
But he bucked every day when he throwed me he bucked for
a ha- I reckon
half a mile
just as fast as he could buck. Jump in the air and
bellow you know and run
Fell off.
Fell out of the bed.
Horse shoes?
Pitch pitch horseshoes?
Hoof?
Hoof?
Horse's hoof.
Drive the nails in his hoof you know
How many hoof?
Four.
All four of 'em.
Four nail on each side
the shoe.
Put you put eight nails on the shoe.
On a horse.
That'd be thirty-two nails
To shoe 'em.
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For a sheep?
Call him a ram.
Buck.
I
I guess a
w- would would
be nicer to call him a ram
No, I don't remember. We never did have any sheep.
At all.
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I don't reckon there'd be too much difference between a ram and a
buck
And goats.
I have some goats
did you ever see any goats?
Got some little kids
I got twelve little ones
Eat 'em.
Mm-hmm.
Best meat you ever eat.
Never had any milk goats. I've seen a lot of 'em
lots of 'em
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you take care of
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{D: bushes}
{D: skin trees}
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goats I have
bush goats
Kill the little bushes and
skin 'em to eat 'em
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briar
can't find a briar
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to kill every
briar in the patch
I came to put new fence out
and had a lot of
little bushes left
where the dozers didn't get 'em out good
I just left 'em
I thought that'd be the best thing, let them kill 'em
I bought me
four goats to put in there
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and for the next two years they done have
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four oh clock
just skinned every one of 'em
all the briars in there
not a blackberry vine in there
lots now
nannies
call it
the ma'am is nannies
the uh the other male is billies
Call her um
uh
ewe
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I have been
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called a ewe I had
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used to everybody
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lived in the country would have a big bunch of sheep got to make the most of living out of sheep
but the ewes
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there ain't hardly any sheep in this country
you hardly ever see one now.
Cuz they're not worth anything hardly
used to bring forty fifty dollars a piece.
Sheep would.
Now
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