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I USX sVOTAD TO aJusis kT LAYS
Itritten by: Alas Minnie etonestreet
Waaniaston, Gebroia
Mita(' by:
Xs's. Leila A. Barrio
3aparvisin aitor
3aorgia Writers' Project
Area
Augusta, C'pecriia
January 25, 1940
Usury Roder's, (Negro janitor)
Washington, G4orKia
January 16, 194(J
M. J.
I 8Sa 0110TtiO TO IJOR,SAj XX i..aY4
WI ain't never seen a Worse yet that I couldn't do noLniat
with Ai I wanted to, and I can make friends with any dog 1 over
Juid old henry Rogers, who is 7? years old, a great lover
of animals, a teen oboerver, and a pkilosopher.
"I moved to 'Ntsnington frNa 4parta, ,,eargia, 4h years 4140.
In than year* I pas seen, dotal waiter, la% man, livery staolo
"ostior," furniture store and uudertaker assistant, and
janitor, at 440 tins or another.
"I is almost too old and ieeolo Low to slava regular work,
a 4 I has a it of trouble tryiat to manage my ttemktW,—htit
I is still on the job and I MIS bean the ijoLiker° Wanitori
of the iiank of '411kes Cailaing or 17 isars."
From Aenryls description no suffers with loeonotor ataxia.
A short tive .1'60 the dank of Wilkes Gaunty building changed
hands and the aid. skin was replaoad iiJ.msdiately by a *pry young
hero. The office renters instantly rafused to let their keys
be given to anyone els., so laitniul and reliable old "Deacon"
as he is affectionately called, comes each morning and °moans
up, for no atat*4 salary, just wt his whits friends give nisi.
henry has a neat, well rurnished little non* on Lexington
Road quite a diStaL00 trua is work. The night watonman at too
ouilding usually makes it oonvenient to Oe is that part of
town 4-03UL the tins Uncle lietkry is ready to C4140 to work and
Qolliby tor dim. Almost every attortioon one of tom town's
most prominent eitiaens curios hiz home on the way to nis tarn
farther out on Lokington Road.
"I'se oomin' to work just us lang as I is able." Sola the
old man. "Some days when I iirst sakes up 1 tools as it I
can't make it but I gets up end makes S3A4 good hot coffee and
cm 'the Law' (night autohaan) blows for ms, I roaches up and
gets ny bat and stick and dome* on, and toot+ it uin't long 'fore
I keels better. If I'd give up and stay at home in Pod I'd soon
PC where I couldn't go. Toe, ham, l'se cumin' GOWA nevi and do
what 1 clan just dB long as oan stand up."
Uncle denry Atilt lost veri little tine on tiOCOUnt at sickness
during nis long serviee at tne &wink building. in tact it he
doesn't show up, domebody hurries to tind aut two reason lor
we know 6:m0W/ft very unusual nue tutpponed. Tnrougnout my
long acquaintance with (Awls Henry I have known 31 xis greet
love ion harass and dogs and at titi point I asked AL* to
tell we some ok Ala experiences. A. *reed readily.
"I been 'voted to aoraee all my days juat piu&b 'voted
to tem.
"The linnt dad Altriond temilios raised me over in Hancoek
Uounty. They lived on a big plantation ana raised pretty much of all
their stock.
"When 1 lwa notain° out a kid boy, I went with the men
to lead toe stook. I couldn't do notain° out get 14 in the
fodder loft and tarow down roughage but I one that itil I
waen my
Iria tag enough to do tas feediati. at ter taut/Marister saw aow
I loved tie stook and mat goad cars I took of 'am be
called me in one day and said:
"'Boy, I cant you to /oak alter tn$1130 nerd's, Lud no aay
else but you, do you Attar?'
"I told him 'Yessir, taank you' ana from then on l was in
complete dna entire oaldreA of all tas horses and mules on that
pluntation. I got up 'fore day and fed the stock und ;lad my
kurster's saddle horse *at tae rack uil ready for aim by good
duyli6ht.
*I °ranks in all tae colts. i'd take one 'pout big Inough
to areak and put a bridle on it then lead it up and down the
long lane 'til it was uss to tam oridle. Mait I'd put a aarness
on it and lead it awhile. Atter it got goo(1 una use to the
harness dangling around, I'd hiteh it up to an oid buggy I
had taere and timen I'd rids in tae lane *wails, then take it
out into the road a mile or so. 1 broxe all Lae colts thdt
way and never had na trouble with 'am.
'Then I was Ad years old tbere 00210 an Irishman out
to tile plaoe from 6parta, we aiI °allot him 'Pot'. is had
race horses, and he trained Alarm's too.
"h41 watched ms what i WRS in with the dolts and alter
little, ae edia to me:
"Lot as hive you instruations 'bout horses'.
"1 said 'Yeeeir, I'd than. you.'
"3-o he brought ono oi his tine raoers out ttsre, he did,
end told mos 'here, take Niak anu Laay 'round with aim,
learn you a beep.'
"1 took Nick ant joggou tim 'round, &Ind I did learn from
tandling aim sae' 'tough.
"Jose time miter that I sett to Jparta and *orked in a
livery suable. I and another 'ostler, k:Arlie SoUss worked
tohether. One day he *lulu to me, as
(tAat's Wiloit everybody in 4ancook oounty bul4.ed
me) let's tate ;nose siorses out to tue rair grounds and
Jo g 'ea 'round tae refs* track.'
"do us ulu. 4e went 'round three times tten started
tome. '44)11, sir, when .is *ent Out Ludir‘;round hate, my
horse dr4pped its head 41UCI 11% out. Ws watt taraugh town a
flying, ri,tt on ;J the steals. '%,iten ay pose man sur us
Gataile me wavea his hantis 4uu hollered: '414tex your lineal
sleet your lineati I orte that und you know taut horse
stopped rihtt dead stils. in its tracks. liT he hadn't told Mil twit
I'd a on. Oustin' rigtt through that staole sad me and the
horst would have oast killed. I ain't never forgot that
rash drivin' as race torso.
"I learned to drive u3rses hood and then I went to maoan
square cialin in tie harness. They cauldn't mats ner do a toning.
they worried with nor 'til my A038 MAU said:
"Tate nor out, and don't bother her *al% 'til denry
comes, ne'll 'tend to nor.'
"Whim I come in tney told me spout her. A. *out in and
ruomed her down sood, petted nor up, ana hooked nor up to a
two horse wagon witn a good old mule. ale laid down again.
I took as a wet sack and put it ali around her head. She sot
up, and I hauled all clay long with that sack an tier
head and I never nit tier a lick. Us sold her next day,
she was all ri6ht asa didn't sive no mars trouble.
"It wasn't so long atter that 'tors *st sot in another
hard horse to sandle we blAiiLat it in Athens aud he was a
goofy horse. Jam% as 1 sot my eyes on him I said:
"Hun, this is ti saaiy L1t$I, aha someoody is liable
to t,st kilt ay him.'
"isy boss asted no haw I know he's goofy. 1 told him
jest lite I Allow a aau SOJD i loOK Ain in tie eyes 1. Oial
tell wast Jana al u man ne is, same *ay I can tall 'pout a
Was*.
"i went on 'bout my ousiness but sayinl to myself: 'Uh,
um, this is another .00 ior as *ith taut dorsi', and sho
'nough it was.
ut in 4 day ar t*o, we sot a notice triere was a car-
load or corn at the depot, so 1 :looked up that goofy torso
witn a ,.;siitle mule esiAl Oro e dim good aauling that corn.
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"My boss went out oi town on busigesa in a 4ay or two
after that, arid a man on an apple wagon 04140 in. I traded
nim that pretty Day goofy hors* for his old dhestnut sorrel
with one erg, and 4010O boot. 'fdert zy boss c* in 4nd I
told him wnat I had done Le sive as 410 foto doing it.
"sot long after that I had to drive a traveling man over
to Mo0ormiok, South Carolina. 1 drove in a stable there and
was rubbin* ay horses off, when I happened to look *round
and there I 401, toe bey goofy hares 1 Lad swapped not long before
to tile apple man. 1 stopped still and asked the waits man *flat
run the livery stabie:
"3hered you 6st tilat bay boreal*
"He said: °Way1' have you ever seta. him before? Xhare
you from snynow?*
"I said: *Yee sir, Pee swan alw Delors. i'se iron over
in scintton, *likes 0ounty, sorgia, and I know Limit horse.'
"aa said: 'Well, it you have seen aim Del ors wharfed
1 6et him?*
*I said: 'You 40t aim iron au a;,iple sa6on man, ain't
yokeet
"de said: .That'a riuht, ttlis horse Wha walking &Long
behila the wagon. I °Isn't work him ean't 44 t6i114 with
"I said: 'Well, i can, ain't nothin* It40 matter with that
horse, hell Io:K „,,00d as bLy norse ir you 411011 how to treat
lain.°
W0u know us said if I would show him how to work that
horse hell give as 46 aud my lodging and not +airstrip) ae a
thiug for my team ataying overnight. 1 had to spend tile
nigOt any haw, so 1 aookad ui;ta.kietin' uorse and a good
gentle mule tagetaer to a big taa horse wagoa anu gat in.
1411 air, stiou i said 'hey' that harm* pulled oft just as
pretty as aaything you ever saw. I rove tue wagon on to where
tne man wanti'd it to go.
"When 1 got bask that white man lolked at as, and loaked
at the horse an asked toe boys that went off with as if the horse
give us any troublgo and taey all said, 'Nona.'
*de loaked right bard at M4 ana said: vat do you do
to MIAii4 harass like tnat work?'
"'Treat 'em Lively, can't *hip 'em, Wati don't let 'ern
get soared of as.' Isal
"Alter e took toe leoond load he WAS Ilatitaied tnet the
horse would aork. then I nitohed hi a to a buggy and the
man 6ot in and I drove Aim all around -Vas town.
"That man was JO happy, oa said as waula ive as 410
a walk, m nause to live in and oaard, it 1 aaula 34=0 live
with hist aad work his norees.
"1 40.4 him, no sir, had a zood job bact in *ashiugton,
*likes County, aflu haa a family aud we vas gettin' aloug all
rigtit over there, so I aidn't watt to move.
"Then he asked as to arive him around one more tins uad
let aim see the horse work, so I did, but I charged him au
extra dollar for %hitt."
Deep in taought tor a re* moments, the old nen said lair
to himself:
"I never whipped but on horse in uy life, and I neVer
give it out one good lick. That s enough taough, for the
whelp st yeti on it tor a long time.
"Goodness, Uncle henry:" i said. "What it tae world made
youaait it so hard?"
as smiled a little, as he answered:
"loll, tell you, that aorse needed it, it stip aid.
It W43 this way.
"we got in sama horses dad I took a pair and hooked 'em
up to try. 1Nell air, taey run away, ate of tea did, and
Lc/looked me clown and dru ms cleat aoross that square out yonder.
Two suite (ittioaans there at tads corner ruaned out and stopped
lea or tney would have kilt me.
ey holt 'am tor as t it in tlie ouggy. I iot in and
toak tug 41110 ;,.ive taco one waat atarted the runnin'
just ons pop wita taat whip 4id. That was a tilenty too, for
that took hi:h aft uis feet. May etarted wen and I let 'ea
go hard t-ey could owz1 wAin Jtreat to eiskiLgton avenue,
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then I turned tusa there at tag, old drink'.ug fo tain and up
toe street toey come back to tile stools.
"A druMaer was waiting Were to go to Tignall. i told
him t4 get in and 1 wod.i.a take Ilia ridat Wien. he got in and
I d iv tit distance (12 miles) over 'cad roads in 4U minutes.
When we driv up to the hotel &uu the drummer t‘ot out, Ae aaid.
to tae hotel man wn4 a Cuero to meet him:
"'I don't know whioh is Tine aurndest in tale outfit, tn.
horses or toe driver.'
"'hell, sir, tout w4is enough ior met 1 lat out a g ad whoop
an let tae dorsals rest awnile aud wen brought 'ea Mack
to town.
"Notway in the steels ever oould handle'taem norses tout
me. They was peauties too and 1 loved to drive 'ea, they
was fast as tne wind. A in in SAbens 84W sem and wanted 'sm.
no finally tsuaded us to let him have 'ea and 1 driv 'em over
tilers to him.
"I cautioned aim taey waa dangerous anu whoever driv 'ea
would have to be mignty careful or they would get out from
under him. In three days tatty run away and tore up dis
carriage and one of ea out itself all to pieces.
"They ho to Oe use every day or toey -4ould get too
fiery. I used to nook 'ea up on itanciays and go out in the
oountry to anuron so/openers just to keep 'en in trainin'.
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'I atAyeu in tus livery at.ule auoineas Itil automobiles
oame taaic podeession Oi ttii3 country. *nen we ufased aut
me utu lay bass weLt Jui, friendly bind iovely ta as= other 0i-.)
fur a O ADM..
"Menet- out) atur wuute ta ti.k4iara we
tile part af Any .i.at,ner.
%.11 riht, Jetta auAr it." i urded, au** from tae Llarry
tuinkle it Uncle Liatry's oia ari6at eyes, tauL .14AT4 4 uuy of
4sein6 much in life Lx:It ia wartnuaiie Uritl 4MU31r4, I 4LOW
it ,9,AaaCi aa something gaod.
"lliSe iawier 3..0 Ltt.,Ateg 'DJut it, 4.it iALL.;WOU My
0033 414A W4Vi tr...ivafe wiLu 4J4t4n futures, they 1;4 „aing
10WA AaS miaersale.
ff ultor C.IALSZ one duy ne
auiu LO ma, he did: Ii,e600n, iaak :Alter everytain. i'as
home.'
"I tald uim all fint, 44.ut at o.
-Atte aa left, I to Jark 4144 iiaLt La clestinI tae
muff& pet.
01.0d a Cfl.sL etz OUc rk tb“; etC1.104
WArd. 1 1Joke At it At.; it Nctii rest le:.ther
pack:stn.:: 4.I ,;)tit it it ay I;ocicet riht yuiak auu said
tat ifi6. :.LL 1..110 L.441 doL tart1 010LAW up 30 i WVilt
in tae orrice &tun ladked edaar utd cutteu the 1.4aney. It
sLA exuctly *Ual Late. n't uo hatuin' nut put
it utiok iu AAypacKet yqi4re couluLlt loue it. i toici Las
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ta go on to, una I looked up tor toe tlat dud uent alum*.
'Next morning whet, the boss coss down, 1 looked at him out
of toe oorner of my eyes And au* ha wasn't lookin' well A bit iihm
some oause. Li e cams on to me an said:
'Leacon, now's I srytaing?'
"all ri A, all 1-ijat.' 1 -Aoswered. Iiio* is everything
with
"I lost my pocketbook somewnere add 4b0f.f lo it, dad
aaven't slept a *ink All
"lab, I'se awful sorry.' 1 jtatl to aim.
"de 'Rout iu nis offioe dad took a drink, Luca 'lien as
ooze out no saia he was s-aoing to breakfast.
"I hollowed to aim us ad left, 'all ri6ht, et a big walk
fast and don't worry.' I kLowe a am WaS deep in task fiaturaa and
was About broke.
"Way 14u; ai dr awhile ae oome book and Isar he looiced
a little better. I let aL-,4 so ill his ottioe and said nothing
to al. After awaile I waut in dna hunadd him ale pocket-
book.
°de *a3 tas worst surprised mac I over aid see and aid,
'where did you tiuo it?'
"1 didn't ay haLain'. de kept lookiug At it opened it
to tie money di1 oounted it.
"'thy tadre is aver 40544 here and 1 thau6ht I ain't
have out even 10b:JU.'
t)ia 414 billicreI IJUIld it :ALAI he drilire 40 a ilve uoilar
bill und suid:
'Yes, slay ataer bier tat round it would hays kept it
too.'
"He toid everybody abaut taat pocketbook up to tile Ume
ua went out ar business."
Hare t e 316 man paused, apparently deeply ,Lst in ViaJueeht.
In a winute 3r two, tie spoke slowly and with note oi ivaanese
ix nis voice.
"In Lhem aya Lisa plenty or money. I but my home,
paid lor it and nun* guod purt by my cuildren. kiter the
liv4ry stable i uaineas 1 Nolit to work at Harwell
Ldaore *here 1 Aas ih core tae colored uadertaing. I
driv uaa uearse ror teal and woraed uround ti6 store. I
moo. 6aou sulatawy and 4:at extalt for every buriai A.made. I
furnisaed my aouse niaely talon, anu 'aou6ut eiong °twit* tilings a
nice upri4it Aano iar my co luren.
"Now I Luilsics but uem goad %lap& evaellA. U4V4 COMO (WWII
to *here I uon't aave out just 4 iiti, ;..ac enouge to go an.
alndixt. (ais e)•sick ALa. tue time dai‘t 0 n't AU44t azd
has tp ackva soadody to *ait au ner. A. siva misses tam
gald u,,ys, I tail au. tuit I must get on now A)Olit t e dogs
I pramised to tali you 4uout.
ethrt my story witi my stealing lour aound puppies
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from the Gypsies taut dumped one winter Ovill oa otir creek aver
in dau000k
"They (some down there and I use to go to their camp Otid
one day 1 i..e these pap4Ass, roar or tae prettiest papidies I
ever 41d see. I wanted tem dad i got tem.
"One svening dnother little ooy was helping me to get u the
cows; 1 taid it to take tae cows on home Ihr me 0.114 i went by
the Gypsy dp Ana st7.11 them puppies took 'em to a old ecin-
house in All out-of-the-way ,01,Ane *here n000hy aver went only
in ginnint time. i kept We i;tuleies over there ior :41onths,
sne7aking rood to 'em every aay ana ...endin to tem.
"One uyr. Urriend went to the binhouas rar dam4taing
and i3ULICE g4 1p1es. te said: 'those dogs la these?'
aha deafly's' I shid.
"Where'd you get 'em?' he -Iked.
tale tem freia the Gypsies.'
drit, don't you know the yp.ies ure looking every-
where iJr 'em?'
"They is too, out they rover did ri a tea 411.3 went on 410
left me with four of tae flues% hound dogs ever seem iu that count/7
1 LiAys Li. ,:hink thsy oau greyhound blood, U442110 Latly AU4
"I risea 4.11 iota or 'em, lista one, f-inny, telly und
31.1,4)er. Readone 114i3 4:iei,ItitlJt ‘434 4 AVer 44W, Ale never
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taak out one and three-quarter Uaura ta s-tch d ibx or run it
ire its 4310. Vivan ae runain' aid rests looxeu 1140 Lary
aus at 'em tauchea tad ,6rausu.
"Oua 4,Aj Mr. Ac iiiOji4O fast f;*oL4 :;iparta to run ii,, dog,
sato. 4 lAiarater iq sad, 4i3 Ziti called ua in.
r. hill sdy: 'hers drit, 1 a to aae tu s.'
"1 -4-eat taa sell snu orauoht 'em a.fraan bucket al
44t it sawn. aile tiley "ia4 srinkint Ar. Aill dstuad
Ae if my 0J,,y vk3a do I4st ai vhey a3 ',Ada. 1 1.31U ui
'ns air, as uat la fast, but as soca a Aisad dog.' V- kurster
4
Just 1,114,caed ,Jui said:
ttil it Veld marain6, he'll sua* you.'
"Next murning way before 410 e tr.id a rce. I set Ay
als8s out, all iaur of tem. Ur. hill s,Ay if nis (lag Alto dan't
catca tliat fax he won't take aim back L.
'her. wv '11W the lox 6a by my do6s *as clooe it cahind
aim, d• Asabans ie4Uin„, all 10 rest. I turned aack dnd
talu «ha *nits Arens ta 6a on Aen they ou6ht aim dnu ir my
do,is cAu6ht the rax they ,)u.1.4 oe ndin' aver him nippin' at
the other d'a.
"'Weil, sir, ft thall Ault lived rarther up l'rom us neard
the race ana CJA4 ut ta dee it.
L0 Lie3443
stsndint
near t hiu rail fence when 114 301, the rOx ump sir,
anU r14ht benind nim wds ata ue jumped unaar the
l6..
to aud grabbed hi,4 'fore ue lauded. he said Chat oeat
anything he ever did see.
"When they all come up to where tne fox was, so they told
me, my do‘a wtt$ 411 otandinl 'round him, and kr. hill's doge
(he had 6 out Alto Was nis brag dog) was standing way book
and ir one of tem moved toward that fox, my dogs nipped at
em.
"soon alter Laut k sold hedbone for 4b0
Aesan
pony. In less tibial 4 year he some maok to me all it 4,0 with
mange and 1.never Let nobody know he was back. But he never
Lao much more good but I kept him 'til Ae died.
"That coa; would tree poosums all niant long, out Al.
wouldn't ther ta run a raooit tor nobody, you couldn't make
Aim gat after 4 rauolt.
"Onoe I to aim uow4 to aparta aLd entered him in a
ara4„ raw', he ,at tne 410 prize, and a an offered me
#100 ,ar aim, out woo.,un't take it. as aad u seen aaarp
mouth and I almost know de was part greyhound.
"1 U40 t:-) t4dp 33M0 tc1x41 oi Wild tsitai0 to CiAt all ;he time.
My mother was t4e cook at the oig house and us all it tners.
They looked for me to l'urniish wilu stuff to eat.
"One day ill April I uii Benny went on to tile creek
to ctitoa a Ca311. 4e uiit o ilu Cato aa i took aLd out
al3 head off, skint Alm, 14u 41:1 ;,de sfUn. i took Aim an
to iAi tetiert to Aanutia t4i‘a aer ae was a coon. 4110 took
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and cooked him u nide, she 4id, thiaaing all tile 111110 what
a.fine coori it *as. Ail of us et aim anti aned aim too.
"b000hy oidn't Waink notAih6 4ocut it until a little
while after taat 4p cameo a rainy aay. 4 it aown anti -,,cot
tie wild t skin huh C4d having a line 4rag race WILL ay hogs
when the Coss man sax it. 'What kind of akin i3that, 3rit?'
he Listed
"'Cox-, skin,' told him.
"Let me see. Lo it ALitt, it's s sat attn.'
"7411 sir, Mamma toak me in and said 'yes Jahn that's
what you aroa6at per. and I coated it for a, on too.'
"Qatatlement with that sae .&.at a *nip anti took me to an
outaouse, took all ray alatnes ofi me ai it :14 one or
ma *ith taut whip wa3 A plenty. ky yaung Mistress eame up
4er off me akia 1 jumed out Lae )window anti :got away."
Hare Uio1s _eicr,iry gave L arty laugh and coatinued:
But yau ALo* one taing; after tAut i taa4 everything
caugnt straignt ta •myttligtintub. and Let aer see wuut it waa, ana
if wy dogs caught a raa6it and sit up its head cad, i hot
tn. have it lor the ail_tgi 11AU to se 411 evarytaing 1 to to
ta t xitcLan altar twit. LAMM& ror trustad me no mhro
ADJ.At the cAme I oroa;at in.
"1 naa Alataar smart dog, naaa is nro. AO has the
warat Joe, av3r did A03, ha *,o44ah't At no itAad af animals
nor fo*is stay Lywhare rr 444, tie kilt elfrytaing. And
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Mamma could &io way rram home and leave tne AJU40 open dna,
tall LILL to stay tare and hot let n000dy 34iiie in. He'd
tete U1S pla00 00i*Uk4 tna titonen door aria it tad worth a
man's life to try to ei,t in. Ad let wy yaun lstress
in, out one hua 64 talk mi6nty nice to tot by.
"One day ua Wus daleep out i. tne awcinine when a little
01411C14. 11CO 042ie Up eilid bit aim an Lae ear. he .:;Dt, up und
killed taut lice (it Via 'Lau) nd I cut ais ear ot. tind treated
it, out one year to taut vaiv day oi. Taro want mad. I
couldn't kill aim, so 1 tot a youn8 white an to come over And
shoot aim lor me.
"1 aaa two little Clack ourach-leid LiOdO once that W48
amurt. One (lay I,,otoz y horse and ais riuitis over the
plantation diter
a 1)14; rain. Taey went along wita ae, ariu
arL-Ir we crossed 4 little sprin a -ranch two to 4 across
tufa field artdr suetaing. rAey 174440 sO MUOU aket I rode
oviar to J44 4nat lc *Us. Taey was on soadthint, ois and
black, I Ulan't now *Adt It iii14 'cause had never dean
nothing lit IL oerore.
"I sidled 'ea on 4nia tL tin- to 'ea, anu tatty fi-
ndJ.ly tilt tis Laing.
"I took it up and iezt on oact to Las douse. i toot it
In na asked
,ty
rater at It was;
"de was so ial.orised, Aa said 'Brit *tier* in tua world
aid you sargt&his otter?'
-19-
"1 told Aim 4U4.1ae dld it w:,:a tha lirst dud auly aue he
hdd eger seen daywhere ar01.14:41. it w, s always a ;Lystery to
him where it came ilems.
"he had me to 9dve the 4Kin 413(1 as toos it alita hA it
Planed du4 sent
orr and ma ae 414 *ifs the prettiest oepe out or
it. it 04a a iaoa it Jul; 4listened. But you kriow bat
otter had the worst olawe 1 oval* a&iw, they vods just like
needles they WAs 44 unary.
rhea ar40er ay 1 hunting ror possums down on our
()reek an4 my 40ga treed someihiug. t *exit up little it
ol u tree dnd 1 say.° it a 4 odoy something. 1 got it dud
it turned out t4 04 4 cJaik. put it lu pocket
nu carried it home and rdised it. i lati.Mect it IginA14, end
kept i; two years. It *as crazy doout ws, woula est every
thins I eat, 4ud alept on my rest every ulolt.
"aut you know that devilish ilttie old thing would steal
everytUiug it dot.. put its claws on. Ih'd Lj de oarerul
*here 1 put my doaks du niq.cht olieu I took 'oat uir or text
maruirli4, 1 6.1.,.;. hdve to ,;at 4r:other pair ;.or would
have sem Diu
Art4 Ciedli, ritiu ,-444sX1 aer with 4er
aws like
a u4t t*Oles. c4t04 vii00 rats, 3 e kept taa itQuai
rri, :raw LLD= 10Dt; U i kept tier.
'I to her ;a tae Maeda tats r'air one year dud a
Adn ollereo 4d yb iir dr. i ala ot4 sae' diu
nate ‘o ,..to it. Jae waa 40 OULO UL love‘t 14e 450. bewdla
eat up 1L my lap every time A. come iu Lae alas* 4nd .iot 441114."
Thiattia6 atameat, Walls tvonry ictake4 up Alta a dmile.
"I've cavered late at territary in my iire aifferaut
tains I've Lions, _Lived a ihave.":
And Ale aas, ae its crowded much into his 77 years; AS
nets lived un 4411 4a, waa /cup* aim will res.. Ee
is tired now, dependant, out ae i a oeen 3ucla d iriend to ail
vac neeodo iia, 411 Lari
stand dy aim.
rLAtae ueaus -riauds, ;nay will