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What It Was, Was
It was back last October, I believe it was. We was a-goin t
a tent service in this town.
And we got thar dinnertime on Saturday And different ones
of us thought we ought to get us a mouthful to eat
we set up the tent.
And so, we got down off of the truck and followed this little of
people through this small little patch of woods.
And we up on a big sign, says Get somethin to eat here!
And I went up and got me two hot dogs and a big drink.
And before I could take ary mouthful of that food this whole of
people up around me
and got me to where I couldnt eat up like
and I my big Orange drink. I did!
Well friends, they to move and they wasnt so much
I do except to move with em.
Well, we commenced to go through all of doors and gates
and I dont know what all, and I looked up one of em
and it says North Gate, and we kept on a-goin there,
and pretty soon we up on a young boy.
And he says Ticket, please And I says Friend, I have a ticket.
I dont even where it is that Im a-goin. I did!
Well he says out as quick as you can.
And I says Ill do erIll turn the first chance I get.
Well, we kept on a-movin through there and soon everyone
got where it was that they was agoin because they
and I could see good. I could!
And what I was this whole raft a people a-settin on these
two banks and a-lookin at one acrosst this purty little
cow pasture! Well, they was! And somebody had took
and white lines all over it and drove posts in it and
I dont know what all! And I down there and I seen
or six convicts a-runnin up and down and a-blowin whistles!
was!
And then I looked there and I seen these pretty girls
a-wearin these little bitty dresses and a-dancin around,
an so I set down and thought Id see what it was was
happen. I did!
And about the time I got set down good, I down there
and I seen or forty men come a-runnin out of one end
of a great big outhouse down there! did!
An everybody I was a-settin got up and hollered!
And about that time thirty or forty a-runnin out of the
other end of that outhouse and the other bank
got up and hollered!
An I asked feller that was a-settin beside me, I says
Friend, what is it that theyre a-hollerin
Well he me on the back and he says
Buddy, a drink!
Well, I says I believe I will have big Orange.
An I got it and set down.
An when I got back there again, I seen that them men
had got in two little bitty down there.
They hadreal together--and they voted! They did!
They voted and one man apiece.
And them two men out in the middle of that cow pasture
and shook hands like they hadnt seen one in a long time.
And a convict come over to where they was a-standin an he
took out a quarter and they commenced to right there!
did!
Well, after a while I seen what it was they was a-odd-mannin for.
It was that both bunches-full of them men this funny-lookin
little to play with! They did, and I know friends that they
couldnt-a eat it they kicked it the whole evenin
and it busted!
But anyhow I was a-tellin was that both bunches-full wanted
that thang and one bunch got it an it the other bunch
just as mad as they could be and friends I seen that
the fight that Id ever seen in my life!
I did! They would run at one another and one another
and throw one another and stomp on one another
and grind their in one another and I dont know what all!
And just as fast as one get hurt theyd tote him off
and run on!
Well, they done that as long as I set there but pretty
this boy that had Ticket please he come up to me and
he says Friend, gonna have to leave because it is that
you dont have a ticket. And I says Well, an I got up
an left. An I dont know, friends, until this day what it was that
was down there, but I have studied about it, and I think its
some kindly of a contest they see which bunch-full of them
men can take that punkin an run one end of that cow pasture
to the othern without gettin knocked down
er in somethin !