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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
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 Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 08:24:12 AM
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Here's a story about "Daddy Red," who was my great-grandfather. (His real name was Arvle.)
He was a wilderness man with a wicked mean streak. One day, while out hunting he caught a little wildcat in a bag and took it on home to Mama Newbourn - my great-grandmother - probably poking it, prodding it, and shaking the daylights out of the poor critter in the sack the whole way home.
Then he took it on into the house, and opened up the bag.
I guess that cat took off running, jumping over the furniture, climbing up the curtains...peeing like crazy the whole time.
He stood silently watching as the cat ran all over the house, being chased by three or four screaming women waving brooms and whatever else they could find. After a bit, he calmly walked over to the door and opened it, and that cat ran out of the house like a shot.
"Thought you all might like a cat," he said simply, and returned to his hunting.
Jessie Mae
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 09:56:58 AM
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What a hoot!!!!!!!!!! LOL
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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greyghost
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
Lynn
Summerville
Georgia
USA
650 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 09:34:54 AM
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| He would have gone a month without any food from MY kitchen. OR clean laundry. OR a civil word! |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 07:23:39 AM
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He sounds like he would have been a fun great grandfather to me. My grandpa loved to hunt, but never brought home anything still alive. Grandma would have killed it herself if he did.
Kris
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Tapestry
True Blue Farmgirl
1223 Posts
Cheryl
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Jul 15 2009 : 04:06:32 AM
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Oh Jessie, this is such a wonderful story. I can just see this ornery cuss shaking the bag and that poor wildcat kitten! The poor thing was scared half to death. I bet your grandma was so mad she could have killed him....LOL. Too funny!
Happy farmgirl sister #353
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
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Posted - Jul 15 2009 : 07:09:29 AM
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Sounds like something my late TT would have done to my grandmother!
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
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A Daddy Red Story
