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Skriven 2006-10-07 10:23:32 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
   Kommentar till text 6144 av hap newsom (1:275/311)
Ärende: Cotton picking
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 >->  > could resist....even
 >->  > aftere repeated whallopings we'd still sneak up into
 >->  > the barn and jump into all
 >->  > that clean white cotton...and get it filled with
 >->  > twigs, sticks and dirt...which
 >->  > dropped the price that was paid for it at the cotton
 >->  > gin...we also loved to
 >->  > chase the chickens...and pigs...the goats would butt
 >->
 >-> What, no rooster to chase you?  And I assume they were young pigs that
 > you
 >-> chased.
 >->
 > Pigs can't sweat...and we were OFTEN told not to chase

I didn't realize they couldn't sweat.  No wonder they reportedly like mudholes.

 > them around, even
 > the big ones will run and they look much funnier than
 > the little ones when

And that surprises me.  I've heard a time or two of somebody being killed by a
hog.

 > they do....Once we chased them around a whole
 > lot....and they looked really
 > distressed ( Summer in the Deep South, temps near the
 > 100 mark probably)
 > and HOT....so we got the hose to cool em off.....We
 > started spraying them
 > with the very cold water pumped up from the
 > well......and one of the big
 > Sow's keeled right over, dead as a doornail! Boy did
 > we get whalloped over
 > that!

No surprise there. <g>

 >->  > us if we chased
 >->  > them...so they were safe unless we could suprise 'em.
 >->  > Also we had a habit of
 >->  > running into my grandfather's tobacco patch and
 >->  > hiding...those were BIIIIG
 >->  > leaves! Or any myriad of other little things we could
 >->  > get into if we weren't
 >->  > being watched...and many times we weren't (chuckle).
 >->
 >-> Y'know, I raised just one kid, and I think that was the right number for m
 > e.
 >-> <g>
 >->
 > After my childhood...I was afraid to have more than
 > one as well! Thank
 > goodness she took after her mother! (grin)

Saved you the horror of reliving your childhood!  <g>

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