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What It Was, Was
It was last October, I believe it was. We was a-goin t hold
a tent service in this town.
And we got thar about dinnertime on Saturday And ones
of us thought we ought to get us a mouthful to eat
we set up the tent.
And so, we got off of the truck and followed this little bunch 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 and a big Orange drink.
And before I could ary mouthful of that food this whole raft of
come up around me
and got me to where I eat nothin up like
and I dropped my big drink. I did!
Well friends, they commenced to move and they so much
I could do except to with em.
Well, we commenced to go through all kinds of and gates
and I dont know what all, and I looked up one of em
and it says North Gate, and we kept on through there,
and soon we come up on a young boy.
And he says Ticket, please And I says Friend, I dont a ticket.
I dont know where it is that Im a-goin. I did!
Well he Come 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 it was that they was agoin because they parted
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
green cow pasture! Well, they was! And somebody had
and drawed white lines all it and drove posts in it and
I dont know what all! And I looked down and I seen
five or six convicts up and down and a-blowin whistles!
was!
And then I down there and I seen these pretty girls
a-wearin these bitty short dresses and a-dancin around,
an so I set down and Id see what it was that was
happen. I did!
And about the I got set down good, I looked down there
and I seen thirty or men come a-runnin out of one end
of a great big outhouse down there! did!
An where I was a-settin got up and hollered!
And about that time thirty or forty come out of the
other end of outhouse and the other bank full
got up and hollered!
An I asked this feller that was beside me, I says
Friend, what is it theyre a-hollerin for?
Well he whopped me on the and he says
Buddy, a drink!
Well, I says I believe I will another big Orange.
An I got it and set down.
An when I got back down there again, I that them men
had got in two little bunches down there.
They hadreal close they voted! They did!
They voted and one man apiece.
And them two men come out in the of that cow pasture
and shook hands like they hadnt seen one another in a time.
And then a convict come over to where they was an he
took out a quarter and they to odd-man right there!
did!
Well, after a while I what it was that they was a-odd-mannin for.
It was that both bunches-full of them men wanted funny-lookin
little punkin to play with! did, and I know friends that they
eat it cause 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 made the other
just as mad as they could be and I seen that evenin
the awfullest fight that Id ever in my life!
I did! They run at one another and kick one another
and throw one another and stomp on one another
and grind feet in one another and I dont know what all!
And just as fast as one would get hurt tote him off
and run on!
Well, they done that as long as I set but pretty soon
this boy that had said Ticket please he 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 punkin an run from one end of that cow pasture
to the othern either gettin knocked down
er steppin in !