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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 about dinnertime on Saturday And different ones
of us thought we to get us a mouthful to eat before
we set up the tent.
And so, we got down off of the truck and this little bunch of
people 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 and a big Orange drink.
And before I could take ary mouthful of food this whole raft of
come up around me
and got me to I couldnt eat nothin up like
and I dropped my big drink. I did!
Well friends, they to move and they wasnt so much
I could do except to with em.
Well, we commenced to go through all kinds of and gates
and I know what all, and I looked up over one of em
and it North Gate, and we kept on a-goin through there,
and soon we come up on a young boy.
And he says Ticket, please And I Friend, I dont have a ticket.
I even know where it is that Im a-goin. I did!
he says 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 there and pretty soon everyone
got it was that they was agoin because they parted
and I see pretty good. I could!
And what I was this whole raft a people a-settin on these
two banks and a-lookin at one another acrosst this purty
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 looked down there and I
five or six convicts up and down and a-blowin whistles!
was!
And then I looked down and I seen these pretty girls
a-wearin little 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 time I got set down good, I looked down
and I thirty or forty men come a-runnin out of one end
of a great big down there! They did!
An everybody where I was got up and hollered!
And about that time thirty or come a-runnin out of the
end of that outhouse and the other bank full
got up and hollered!
An I asked this feller that was a-settin beside me, I
Friend, what is it that theyre for?
Well he whopped me on the and he says
Buddy, a drink!
Well, I says I believe I have another big Orange.
An I got it and set down.
An when I got back down there again, I seen them men
had got in two little bitty down there.
hadreal close together--and they voted! They did!
They and elected one man apiece.
And them two men out in the middle of that cow pasture
and shook hands they hadnt seen one another in a long time.
And then a convict come over to where was a-standin an he
took out a quarter and they to odd-man 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 punkin to play with! They did, and I know that they
couldnt-a eat it cause they kicked it the 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 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 one another
and throw one another down and on one another
and their feet in one another and I dont know what all!
And just as as one would get hurt theyd tote him off
and run on!
Well, they done that as as I set there but pretty soon
this boy had said 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 it was that they
was a-doin down there, but I have about it, and I think its
some kindly of a contest where they see bunch-full of them
men can take that an run from one end of that cow pasture
to the othern without either gettin down
er steppin in !