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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 on Saturday And different ones
of us we ought to get us a mouthful to eat before
we set up the tent.
And so, we got down off of the truck and followed this bunch of
through this small little bitty patch of woods.
And we come up on a big sign, says Get to eat here!
And I went up and got me two hot dogs and a big drink.
And before I could take ary of that food this whole raft of
people up around me
and got me to where I couldnt eat up like
and I dropped my big drink. I did!
Well friends, they commenced to and they wasnt so much
I could do except to move 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 North Gate, and we kept on a-goin through there,
and pretty soon we come up on a 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 around the chance I get.
Well, we kept on a-movin through there and pretty everyone
got where it was that they was agoin because parted
and I could see good. I could!
And I seen was this whole raft a people a-settin on these
two banks and a-lookin at one another acrosst purty little
green cow pasture! Well, they was! And somebody had
and drawed white all over it and drove posts in it and
I dont know what all! And I looked down there and I
five or six a-runnin up and down and a-blowin whistles!
was!
And then I looked down there and I these pretty girls
a-wearin these little bitty short and a-dancin around,
an so I set and thought Id see what it was that was
happen. I did!
And about the time I got set down good, I looked there
and I seen thirty or men come a-runnin out of one end
of a great big outhouse down there! did!
An everybody where I was got up and hollered!
And about that time thirty or forty come out of the
other end of that and the other bank full
got up and hollered!
An I asked feller that was a-settin beside me, I says
Friend, what is it that a-hollerin for?
Well he whopped me on the and he says
Buddy, a drink!
Well, I says I believe I will have big Orange.
An I got it and set down.
An I got back down there again, I seen that them men
had got in two little bunches down there.
They hadreal close together--and they voted! did!
They voted and one man apiece.
And two men come out in the middle of that cow pasture
and shook hands like hadnt seen one another in a long time.
And then a convict over to where they was a-standin an he
took out a quarter and commenced to odd-man right there!
did!
Well, after a while I seen what it was that was a-odd-mannin for.
It was that both bunches-full of men wanted this funny-lookin
little punkin to play with! They did, and I friends that they
couldnt-a eat it they kicked it the whole evenin
and it busted!
But anyhow what I was was that both bunches-full wanted
that thang and one got it an it made the other bunch
just as mad as they could be and I seen that evenin
the awfullest fight that Id seen in my life!
I did! They would run at one another and kick one
and throw one another down and on one another
and grind their feet in one another and I dont know all!
And just as fast as one would get theyd tote him off
and run on!
Well, they done that as long as I set but pretty soon
this boy that had said Ticket he come up to me and
he Friend, youre gonna have to leave because it is that
you dont a ticket. And I says Well, alright an I got up
an left. An I dont know, friends, until this day what it was they
was a-doin down there, but I 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 without either gettin knocked down
er steppin in !