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What It Was, Was
It was back October, I believe it was. We was a-goin t hold
a tent service in college town.
And we got thar about on Saturday And different ones
of us thought we ought to get us a to eat before
we set up the tent.
And so, we got off of the truck and followed this little bunch of
people through this small little bitty of woods.
And we up on a big sign, says 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 of that food this whole raft of
people come up 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 wasnt so
I could do except to with em.
Well, we commenced to go through all of doors and gates
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 pretty soon we 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 around the first chance I get.
Well, we kept on through there and pretty soon everyone
got where it was that they was agoin they parted
and I see pretty good. I could!
And what I seen was this whole a people a-settin on these
two banks and a-lookin at one another acrosst this purty
green cow pasture! Well, they was! And somebody had
and drawed white all over it and drove posts in it and
I dont know all! And I looked down there and I seen
five or six a-runnin up and down and a-blowin whistles!
was!
And then I looked down and I seen these pretty girls
these little bitty short dresses and a-dancin around,
an so I set and thought 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 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 thirty or forty come a-runnin out of the
end of that outhouse and the other bank full
got up and hollered!
An I asked this 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 I will have another 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 bitty bunches down there.
They hadreal close together--and voted! They did!
voted and elected one man apiece.
And them two men come out in the middle of cow pasture
and shook hands like they hadnt seen one another in a time.
And then a convict over to where they was a-standin an he
out a quarter and they commenced to odd-man right there!
did!
Well, after a while I seen it was that they was a-odd-mannin for.
It was that both bunches-full of men wanted this funny-lookin
little punkin to play with! did, and I know friends that they
couldnt-a eat it cause they kicked it the whole
and it busted!
But what 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 could be and friends I seen that evenin
the fight that Id ever seen in my life!
I did! They would run at one another and one another
and throw one another down and stomp on one
and grind their in one another and I dont know what all!
And as fast 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 that had said please he come up to me and
he says Friend, youre gonna to leave because it is that
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 about it, and I 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 gettin knocked down
er steppin in !