Aux 1
Mm-hmm.
{D: Yeah I've}
{D: styled it up but the}
coat is
{D: drawed up.}
{NW}
{D: Draw up.}
Primping.
{NW}
Some
{D: call it a}
shopping bag.
Mm-hmm.
{X}
{D: A lady purse.}
Mm-hmm.
{X}
Mm-hmm mm-hmm.
Beads.
{D: Or a}
Necklace.
Mm-hmm.
Suspenders
Well
{D: I}
yeah you would uh
{X}
for just
uh
{X}
{D: have work suspenders.}
And then if you want for.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
Yeah.
They- the- they have different
{D: grades}
of them for
different days.
Want to go,
with a nice suit of clothes on a
{D: pair of uh heavy work}
suspenders
on.
{X}
Umbrella.
Parasol.
Sheet.
Bed spread.
Mm-hmm.
Some of them call them comforter.
Pillow.
A bolster is a
{X}
Mm-hmm.
Taking uh
mattress and
put it on the floor and
you know and
uh you say
we
you'd call it
palate.
You making a palate on the floor.
{X}
cultivated.
Rich
soil.
Yeah.
Uh it's uh
this here
{D: dark}
land and then the uh the uh
{D: gray}
type of land.
{D: What now all}
uh hill land with a lot of soil
{X}
but we have
a
different section
you'll find
some of this
{D: gray}
soil is too
{D: richer soil it's kind of}
{D: poor}
soil.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{X}
some is
real
{D: red land, you'd have made good crop}.
But that
{X}
{D: you gonna grow look like much of anything on this}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
Mm-hmm.
That's uh
{D: made}
soil. {C: rooster crowing}
{NS}
The soil off the hill probably done {C: rooster crowing}
washed down and
and that
made land and
that's real rich soil
cause the soil from
{X}
uh land
{D: done}
you know filled in down there.
It's a really rich type of soil.
Yeah.
{D: Like} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
water will overflow
{D: one place}
and
down in the low place.
Well
if that water come
off the hill down to the bottom
it's bringing a portion of your
soil {C: rooster crowing}
{D: off the hill down there.} {C: rooster crowing}
And that will
{X}
{D: build that}
lower place
build it up.
And that's why
your rich soil
{D: of yours}
down there in that little
{X}.
Mm-hmm.
Uh that's the uh
{X}
like uh regular low land
{D: is}
{D: is where}
your water settled in
{D: it's}
{D: sort of}
water
{D: sogged, know?}
A lot of time
I know a place
{D: out here}
going on the
{X}
it's uh
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
long time it's
just
look like just
{X}
{D: but the staves are so wet you wouldn't be able to}
go on down to
plow it up.
Mm-hmm. {C: rooster crowing}
{D: But}
It's uh s-
some type of land in different
{D: sections.}
Just the
{NS}
what we call a spring
uh
land.
{D: Just a spring} {C: rooster crowing}
{D: somewhere in the area} {C: rooster crowing}
and that water
{X}
through it and just keep it soft
{D: for all time while}
you gonna be.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
Mm-hmm. {C: rooster crowing}
{X}
{X}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{X}
{D: I see him}
cultivating and
soil different type of soil.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
Yeah.
S-
-salt would kill the
land why it wouldn't produce anything.
Mm-hmm.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
That was the Indian territory and they drove the Indian out and they
that's where they
{D: hid their money}
{X}
{D: village and}
put it in treasures like that.
And they drove out and they didn't get chance to get the money so {C: rooster crowing}
{D: you tell me} {C: rooster crowing}
anywhere that you see uh
a tree that got
a
{D: number}
on it
then
that's
a pointing them
to the treasure.
And another Indian notice it but now
he be about the only one
{D: with a know where- where to go get it.} {C: rooster crowing}
I have space up here in the
{D: barn.}
It's in a wood
{X}
uh
I cut timber
{X}
up there in,
twenty-five
in one of 'em.
And we were
{D: rafting}
logs.
Putting them in the river and pin them together and
floating them down the river to the saw mill down
{X}.
And that night
we had our raft
fastened
up to the bank
and that night uh
the man I was working with
Mr.
{B}
he heard a noise and he thought his log was- had done broken loose.
He went out there and he heard such a noise that
the log
{D: won't broken loose}
and he said that
it was a
{D: bull coming}
from across that river.
Say it look like
{D: fire was}
{X}
out his nose,
ten foot on each
side.
Yeah.
And he thought his raft had done broke loose while
{X}
just like he left it.
Then he said he was
some money was buried up there and the Indian
didn't want
{X}
{D: bother it.}
Said and they saw that bull coming at and says look like
{D: fire was}
{D: standing out his nose}
on each side.
Yeah.
{NW}
{D: That Indian}
{X}
want back in to the
{X}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
I know why
{D: it would}
{X}
{D: from where}
uh this
{D: happened at}
and it's uh what you call a
{D: beech tree.}
It's uh
kind of a
{D: smooth bark}
tree and
and that
they cut that
in that tree and
{D: I didn't}
know what year but you can see the numbers on there now, w- on that tree
{D: right.}
It was cut in there.
And it done grow but you still
discover them numbers.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah yeah lots of
lowland down here
{X}
{D: near the river that}
is called
{D: swamper}
land.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
A canal
{D: uh yeah uh.}
{D: A wash}
{D: through the farm.}
{X}
Yeah.
Yeah.
{D: Oh uh}
just like
you say a w- water's coming off a hill
down to the bottom and
the water's
severe enough to
you know cut a
a
{X}
down across the
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
where it continue to be a canal. {C: rooster crowing}
{D: Wash.}
Yeah that's the same thing.
{D: Other word}
the uh canal you uh
{D: you'd uh}
cut a canal,
with-
that would be just a gully,
{D: wash uh wash}
coming
from the upper land to the lower land.
Ya that's right
Mm-hmm.
And these here
{D: washes}
where the water just cut its own way through there.
Door knob.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
Mountains.
Uh-huh.
A cliff. {C: noise}
Mm-hmm.
Well that uh
{D: it w- uh}
some people call it the uh
a air pocket.
You know
{D: what}
they call it
{D: by}
two mountains in
between
those mountains.
{D: Call her}
air pockets and
I
{D: wish}
my brother I never did see because I didn't go to see.
He said they would uh
be flying along in airplanes
then they
plane
would be down below
the top of that mountain
and when they get between those
mountains
that
they hit what you call uh dead air
pocket.
{D: Until their}
plane
{D: would drop}
or certain
{X}
down.
{NW}
Yeah
{X}
A barge or something.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{X}
The boat
{D: uh}
{X}
some people call it the- the st-
stage
{D: where}
the boats land up.
{X}
{D: Sitting dock.}
{X}
The loading dock.
Dock.
{D: They up there}.
Say this is the
{X}
building here and the water's not deep enough for the boat to come all the way
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
out of that dock {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{D: Why}
{NW}
the boat could come up
{D: to it to unload}.
{X}
{X}
they call it
{X}.
{D: Water coming over}
{X}
{X}
{X}
Asphalt.
Wish that rooster would go somewhere.
{X}
{X}{NS}
{X}
Well tha- tha- that was uh
{X}
this here's a by road
leading in to the main highway.
Mm-hmm.
A cross road or something like that
{X}
{D: maybe it's}
go on across the highway,
but
your main road would be
you know your highway and
{D: you'd just be just on right top}
a gravel road or
maybe a dirt road
leads in to it
{D: the road}.
Uh that's the by road. {C: noise}
{D: Comfort or}
uh at home.
{D: Well I like}
do occasionally, not too often.
Said how do I?
White cream, su-su-sugar
{D: when}-
when I take a
{X}
{D: would call my wife},
{D: so I could get}
{D: mine every morning.}
{D: I just}
drink my milk.
{X}
I'm a milk man.
{NW}
I have- uh uh-huh.
Yeah.
Yes.
Cream
{X}
uh milk from our cows.
Black coffee
or straight coffee.
{X}
{X}
{X}
call it black coffee
they don't want cream or sugar in it.
Just the straight coffee.
No.
{NW}
Uh-huh.
{D: Yeah.}
{D: Straight home}
{D: or something like that.}
Junior.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Catch 'em.
Or sic 'em.
I
{X}
just- just a dog.
{D: He's}
not a, you know, a full bred dog.
No certain breed.
{X}.
{NW}
Call them a
{D: faust.}
A house dog.
{NW}
{NW}
Yeah yeah.
it definitely
{X}.
Uh German Shepherds and a dog called a
{D: Poodle}
dog.
{X}
mean dog.
{D: Course how you}
{D: get uh it's uh lot's}
{D: how}
people train dogs. You can take
a bulldog
{D: which he's supposed to be a bad dog},
{D: but then I}
you train him right
he ain't no more then the other dogs.
{X}
some of them attack you and then again
they won't. It just depends upon how they are trained.
Yeah oh yeah.
And he was
{X}
{D: probably}
just a kind of uh
a mixed breed of dog. He wanna
{X}.
I went
house right down the road here one day.
{D: Went down after a cousin of mine}
in a buggy.
The dog was on the back
{NS}
and I went in
{D: on}
had
{X}
{D: house.}
I went in and
{X}
and I went on in and
they wanna come back out to the buggy.
My cousin forgot her purse and left it on the bed.
And she said I've done
forgot my purse will you go over and get it?
I opened the gate
and got about half way to
the
porch
and them dogs heard me and they come around the house.
Three of them.
And I didn't have a thing
in my hand to keep them off of me.
Then
my cousin was in the house
she come to the door and.
{X}
And them dogs were
{D: running me in the house}
she
{X}
kicking them.
{X}
One of them
{D: run up there up and grabbed them by my}
{X}
leg.
Just did pinch my skin. And I got a chance to kick him and
by that time she
hollered at them and they just
{D: broke and went on}
back around the house.
{D: And that was the only dog}
{D: ever did get a chance to bite me}.
No it was just
nothing but the skin on my leg.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
{X}
Uh uh
{D: the same individual she}
talk about
she had that dog
{D: is a black}
I don't know, Shepherd and
{D: cur}
or some mix.
The black dog had a white white ring
around his
{D: neck}.
And he
uh you could not go in that yard if he was there without somebody
{D: guarding you in}.
And the
{D: man}
of the house stayed there and if he
put on a pair of corduroy pants
{D: his wife would have to}
{D: guide him in}
that dog wouldn't let him in there with them
corduroy pants on.
{NW}
The bull.
Mm-hmm.
A little steer.
{NW}
Yeah uh-huh.
{X}
you know that's the small
bull but he got to grow
{D: you can call him}
{D: calf until he}
grow up to the, you know bull stage
{X}
Little heifer.
Mm-hmm.
Gonna
{X}
or have a calf.
Mm-hmm.
thing?
A stallion.
Stallion, some people call 'em a
{D: stud.}
She's the mare.
{NW}
He throws you.
Yeah.
That's right.
{NW}
Fell out the
bed.
Yeah.
Now I don't
remember ever falling out of it myself
{D: but I'll}
I had kids around me did fall.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
Shoes.
Mm-hmm.
Horseshoes
The hoof.
Mm-hmm.
Pitching horseshoes and {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
game.
{NW}
No there's not uh w- we have them but-
{D: somehow}
{X}
{D: We raise sheep.}
The ram.
Mm-hmm.
That's the male.
Uh let me see,
{D: what was it}?
I did know.
I just remember
{X}
{D: The ewe, the}-
Well uh,
Their wool.
{X}
I'd be
{X}
butcher
{D: and mutton.}
Mm yeah it is.
{X}
A boar.
Mm-hmm.
He- he's just a pig.
Just uh he
{D: get up but then he}
{D: the boar.}
A barrow?
Mm-hmm.
Uh uh
{D: alter him}.
Mm-hmm.
Uh cut him.
Mm-hmm.
The what?
Uh his
bristles.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah he'd get mad then he'd throw that bristles up just like a dog.
Yes.
{D: It hairs stand still}
{D: on his back.}
{D: He}
He ready to charge you when they do that too.
{D: Mail carrier}.
{X}.
The male
{X}
they get up,
uh to,
about
{D: two year old uh}
those
{D: tusks just}
grow and
stick out the corner of their mouth.
{D: Out}
and
one would fight
cows and things. He never did
challenge me but it
{D: cut a}
{D: mule}
{X}
or two of mine.
I'd
{D: take}
my hack saw and
sawed them off,
clean up
{D: through the gum.}
And they
they growed back out.
Just
as sharp as it was before.
The next time I
cut them,
{X}
after they growed out
I got me a
{D: wire}
and
tie them
{D: in his top}
of his mouth and got my
{D: wire stretchers}
and
{D: staked them up to the}
{X}
{X}
{D: front feet were clear},
And
at
{D: had in its top}
{D: lip}
he go to
{D: a-hollering}
I had my.
{X}
I
{D: hit him there and}
and knocked them out. They didn't come back.
{NW}
{NW}
{D: Yeah.}
{D: It's the}
{D: are you gonna}
break his jaw bone?
I said I'd sooner break his jaw bone then he gonna kill up everything around here I got.
{X}
It's not my
{X}
{D: a dentist}
{X}
{D: But didn't he come back that time}.
{D: Uh and}
the uh,
{D: what was is a hog pen was sitting in the}
{D: mule lot}.
And the mule would go over there,
eat over in the hog pin. {C: rooster crowing}
And broke the
{D: plank}
{X}
my hogs
{X},
come out
{X}
{D: where this male was}.
And man he got at them hogs just like a dog at a rabbit.
And I was in church and somebody
come and told me about the {C: rooster crowing}
hog was out {C: rooster crowing}
in the lot with my mare,
and he had them hog cut all over. That's
why he could {C: rooster crowing}
{D: strike him at}
he struck them down
{X}.
And one o- of them
he- he hit him
{D: in his hip}
{D: and cut a long gash in his hip},
and one
{D: he hit it}
right up behind his
whole shoulder {C: rooster crowing}
{D: on the side.} {C: rooster crowing}
And when I
killed that hog
he done cut him clean into
the.
{X}
{D: The)
the first
{D: time in}
January, both times, {C: rooster crowing}
I come out
the church and put on
{D: water he}
kill them hogs. {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
been so full of
{D: fear.}
So me and my brothers come out of church and
I got
{X}
out of.
{X}
{D: Then we put on}
{D: water}
and
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{D: hung 'em up} {C: rooster crowing}
laid them out there in the smoke house until the next morning.
Yeah I,
I went to.
{X}
What
what happened?
{D: I think my} {C: rooster crowing}
hog got out
{D: of the lot there}
and you broke the fence and they
come out the
{D: the lot and that male got over}
to them and
I had come out of church and kill them hog.
He said well go ahead and kill them
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
I told him that's just what I'm doing.
{NW}
{NW}
Uh yeah
{X}
is just a wild hog
you know.
Mm-hmm.
I've never seen one but uh
{D: years back}
{X}
about
uh I'd say about four miles from here,
when I was a kid
my daddy and uh
other friends that
{D: the worker}
{X}
they had a
{D: farm}
{D: up}
{D: the bottom there}
{D: kind of.}
{X}
And uh
they would have
corn
{D: plains}
up there.
And uh
{D: along on their}
{X},
{X}
them on through,
or maybe before then.
They would uh
{NS}
hook up a wagon
and a wagon load up with uh
go up there
{D: laying but then a wild hog}
come out of the woods and eat up the corn up there.
{D: Then they}
they killed
{D: some up there}
and then they
{D: run in on some pigs}
and they caught
some
{X}
pigs.
And saved them and
a first cousin of mine
had
one he caught
and
{D: she}
started
{D: playing}
and
{D: raising them}.
My daddy got a pig off of that pig.
They were
{X},
well the whole time he had her
{D: was a never},
{D: she would bring pigs}
and if you caught one of them pigs
{D: buddy}
you'd better make sure you getting out of that
{D: lot}
in a hurry.
But she was shifty.
{X}
{D: A real slick black hog.}
{X}
When you- you see that bristle raise up her back
you better be going.
{D: That's it)
that's how we
had them old
rail fences.
You'd have bigger locks
{X}
you have now but
{X}
that's why you kept the hogs in the {C: rooster crowing}
{D: lock}
{X}
{D: real fence}.
But they would sure
{D: get to you}.
{D: I'd say}
uh when it being weaned?
Bleating?
Mm-hmm.
Mm yeah.
Feed 'em.
Feed your
f- uh fowl
{X}.
Mm-mm.
The hen house.
Well
uh
the hen house that's where your chickens
{D: are roost there}.
And then uh a lot people would have uh
what you call a chicken yard.
You know your chickens not allowed to run out
in the fields
{D: so why you just have a}
regular chicken yard
for 'em to stay in.
But the hen house
would be where they would lay at and
go to roost at night.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
{D: No that}
you know what.
{X}
{X}
{X}
{X}
{X}
{D: Uh that's that's}
{D: that's the}-
{X}
Right in front of his uh
chest.
{X}
I I
I don't know why
{X}
I can't
{X}
{D: particular}
{X}
Uh the inside of a hog?
{D: I uh the}
the liver
{D: or out of the whole}
thing is good to eat.
And some
{D: people they say}
I don't care much about the
{D: lights}
and
and
then the heart
{D: mm.}
Uh,
{D: milk},
the kidney and
the uh
{D: maw}
and the
{D: chitterlings}
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah they use that.
{X}
{NW}
{X}
liver and the
haslet is
{X}
you know
connected together.
Milking time or
{X}
feeding time.
Soo soo soo.
{X}
some people have a different
you know method of calling them. Depend upon how the
the- the cows are trained.
Mm-hmm.
Some of them have
cows named he can call him by his name and.
and she'll come on to the house.
Now.
I.
My hog
I'll call them
whoop and they'll come.
And I got a
a
{D: barrel}
out there with a
a metal
top to it
where I
mix my feed in to feed them.
They can be up here
um
in a.
{X}
Now I go out there and just raise that top up and slam it
down on that barrel,
and they'll come running just like I done
called them.
Yes
{D: the calves.}
{D: The calves.}
Mm-hmm.
I call them by
{D: name}-
{D: c'mon Bill, Kate or what have you}
come over here.
Mm-hmm.
{D: Come up}.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Cluck
to him.
Or shake their line.
He
{D: he'll realize}
the movement of them lines it means
for him to go.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
{X}
Yes your buggy line or wagon
Wagon line?
Mm-hmm.
Whoa.
Mm-hmm.
No I- I don't know
the, how they, you know
go about calling
{X}
you know participated
with them.
The harness.
those are?
Saddle stirrup.
Mm-hmm.
Uh well uh
the horse on the left
{NW}
that's your saddle horse.
Uh that is in a
{X}
drive the wagon or something.
Y- You always
use it to ride
your left
{D: hand}
{D: wheel mule or}
horse if it's a
{D: log}
wagon or something
{D: then you}
ride the left hand mule.
That's
{D: use your right hand}
if you're
{D: riding}
{D: course some people may be}
{D: left-handed.}
But in the
{X}
you want to
{D: pop}
your
{D: lead}
mule with your
whip,
your right hand is free to
your
{X}
mule or
{D: the ones.}
{X}
Mm-hmm.
Too far.
{X}
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
You'd say that you still have?
A long distance ahead.
I have so many
{D: mile}
{X}
you know? You know
{D: definitely the.}
{X}
You got so many miles to go
{D: yet}
before
you know you get your
{X} {C: noise}
{X} {C: noise}
Anywhere.
Backwards.
{D: Forwards.}
Didn't have no luck. I didn't catch nothing.
{D: Mm-hmm yeah.}
I have-
I have
{D: many.}
{X}
something like that?
What
what's the matter with you?
{NW}
What happened to him
or something like that.
Mm-hmm.
Any.