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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 college 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
people through small little bitty patch of woods.
And we come up on a big sign, Get somethin to eat here!
And I up and got me two hot dogs and a big Orange drink.
And before I could take ary mouthful of that food this raft of
come up around me
and got me to where I couldnt eat up like
and I my big Orange drink. I did!
Well friends, commenced to move and they wasnt so much
I could do to move with em.
Well, we commenced to go through all kinds of doors and
and I dont what all, and I looked up over one of em
and it says North Gate, and we on a-goin 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 even know it is that Im a-goin. I did!
Well he says Come out as as you can.
And I Ill do erIll turn around the first chance I get.
Well, we kept on through there and pretty soon everyone
got where it was that they was agoin because they
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 little
cow pasture! Well, they was! And somebody had took
and drawed white lines all it and drove posts in it and
I dont what all! And I looked down there and I seen
or six convicts a-runnin up and down and a-blowin whistles!
was!
And then I looked down there and I seen these pretty
a-wearin these little short dresses and a-dancin around,
an so I set down and thought Id see it was that was
happen. I did!
And about the time I got set down good, I looked down
and I seen thirty or forty men come out of one end
of a great big down there! They did!
An everybody where I was got up and hollered!
And about that thirty or forty come a-runnin out of the
other end of that and the other bank full
got up and hollered!
An I this feller that was a-settin beside me, I says
Friend, what is it that theyre a-hollerin
Well he whopped me on the back and he
Buddy, a drink!
Well, I I believe I will have another big Orange.
An I got it and set down.
An when I got back down again, I seen that them men
had got in two little bitty down there.
They close together--and they voted! They did!
voted and elected one man apiece.
And them two men out in the middle of that cow pasture
and shook like they hadnt seen one another in a long time.
And a convict come over to where they was a-standin an he
took out a and they commenced to odd-man right there!
did!
Well, after a while I seen what it was they was a-odd-mannin for.
It was both bunches-full of them men wanted this 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 what I was a-tellin was that bunches-full wanted
that thang and one bunch got it an it made the bunch
just as mad as they could be and friends I that evenin
the awfullest fight that Id ever in my life!
I did! They would run at one another and kick one
and throw one another down and stomp on one
and grind their feet in one another and I know what all!
And just as fast as one would get hurt theyd him off
and run on!
Well, they that as long as I set there but pretty soon
boy that had said Ticket please he come up to me and
he says Friend, youre gonna have to leave because it is
you have a ticket. And I says Well, alright an I got up
an left. An I know, friends, until this day what it was that they
was a-doin down there, but I have studied it, and I think its
kindly of a contest where they see which 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 in somethin !