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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1939)
\ > , \ ; Y 11 % H 1 } I f. r It. by m [A This here is s story of the Mokinit clsn of Kentucky. I am Zeke and the .;; only one of the elan thet went to school, course I didn't go hat to the fifth grade, hut pappy sed* it was time fer me ta stop j^nhin’ boat education and go ta sawin* wood. I was gittin* right close ta twenty- one then ao 1 1 figured he was right f I'M] '• Ifif S - tli the next one an’ sed there what “ did I tell ya, there jj^st ain’t no use in trying ta git a fight.” I begun ta think of some way wgiins could fight j an* still make Some*:-money. I went over ta Lem and tol^ him thet if he wanted ta git a figft jest ta offer ' j *• pappy ‘baccer” money and sure naff peppy would fight. Igr kinds sparred an’ ! should give up the idea of ever around a minute; I tyin’t see as how gittin’ into the sixth grade—gosh I could blame him, t<^i cents is a pile a money jest few a frud. Finally the thing started and lasted most a year. Then they went bock ta Jtggaboo crick and we ain’t hfered from them * r 1 • they sure did have marm to. rhool- purUy Mr. Editor, maybe your a wonder in’ jest what this hers story is for. Well ya see we beta bearin’ bout those city folks amakin* jokes bout us hill-billie and we jest want to set ’ ya strait. Us Mokins is supposed ta be the saassty of the hills, at least thet is the' way moat people take us ever since pappy came into that two dollar a month ole age thing. There ain’t been a feud since way last October when one of them Kacy varmits stumbled upon grand-pappy Doodle asleep and shot him for a bar. Course we all knowed thet gran- pappy had quite a growth of whis kers but . Met part of his story is alright, it twan when he sed thet gran pappy wgs a snorin’ bar fashin’ thet started it all. The feud was jest . a small one on account of all the Kacys had been ftbot off a couple a j months before, thet is most of ’em. I 11/ lie Motrin* is peeve lovin’ aorta jlslka, we don’t go outa our way ta find trouble and moat timea we jest . don’t care bout afeudin*. Why I ■tetober bout one feud that it took two days ta start. It was with thet || bunch on Jiggaboo crick. They come i up ta pappy one day and sed thet they was atakin’ over the territory. | Pappy sed he didn’t care jest so long I There was the tiige we all was a gain* ta town, maw; ; bed maid some ’’ copnakin hats fer jhll ua children and we was reddyta^go. It took us a. .couple of days ta round them all op,’ then maw hed ta £nake two more coonskins hats; she jion’t count very well. Pappy still tljink* we took a couple of Kacys with us. I don’t know as how this her# np. we’uns took would strike you big we hed such a good titne thet I’m gonna tell ya all ! about it. j~ I It’s bout thurty -miles from our house ta town, mighty long way ta go In two weeks bulb we was a rarin’. Pappy crawled up^in back a the kragon and maw MKdd'the trun. ft , was sure funny, mgw was a cussin’ paw fer not stayin'|awakg an talkin’ U her. On the wayywe lost a coup!, a kids but we fouiid out later they was jest coon huntin’ an went M. Home. When we got ta town urn- stuck out our cheats an went right down the main steAC It ain’t of ft on ■ as ttey didn't bother him. But could she right then thet them boys were allokin* fer a fend. Lem, the biggest one of them, turned off ta v couple of days pap|y decided ta take thet ya see a horseman wagon st the same time. Pappy bed bout all the money in the woi$ri on him, right close ta four dolar^j we kinda bunch ed round him so ^ui not ta git it took. k After we hed been in town t a JANUARY,' 1939 I M '■A t i« us ta one of them cplf terrms ta eat. Bay was we a puttin' ‘ the dog on. * Whew! gfell we went into one of them places ta eat an sure’buff there ws* a bunch a gny people in there, they was a tootirf an a hollerin’ something fierce R it we all set dowyi .• and a slicker came Over ta the tabl^. He handed paw a card an’ paw hand ed it back, “I want a dinner fer the whole shebang” he jsays. The slicker says “do yon wan the dollar one sir?” Pappy threw out his chest and sed - . yes sir ree. Now I was a feetim’ kinda a doubtful bout paw spendfe* all thet v money jest for us U eat. Why hack home it never cost a dollar fer all of , us ta eat But Pappy was a feelin' good to I jest set aipmalted fer mine. It finally came an we’unv started. There weren’t much there but I did feel n I little better.. Then when it was all over was when the trouble started, the slicker gave pappy an other card with thurty dollars writ- ten on. Now we’d all heered boat them checks but why would this hers slicker give pappy a check fer thurty dollars, he ain't ever him be fore. Pappy wouldn't take the check an* sed thet was ready ta go. He pulled oat two dollar bills and left ! ^ everybody . in the calf t^rria with ; thar moefs wide open. * * ‘ | I. I . ' L Igbjr'j we had et in the calf ter- ria we didn’t calc Hate thar wus much 1 else fer us to do, and we wint on home. | •'*].• i I : I j u ■ L Thet thar was ^jgll onto twenty j ~ • yars sen, but hit is still the talk in theng- ports. Why we is still looked \ up to Around hyng^hobuddy else hasi even bep to Uown, much lean et in >4 Now, don't ye thing, Mr. Editor, thet o complaint earnin' from the seeh r as we matters sum? Why don’t you- ; v uns tell them other dirty fellers tef cut out there dratted wisecrackin'? 'j j*: ( ] \ -