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AV & DM inter. M/M Sulk -43- 8/11/72
Tape 25-2

see that, that's how strong it is, well when we started to dilute it, you
should see the good whiskey we made out of that and I was makin' it 105,
110 you know and the old man edge me on to make 120 I said no, her mother
would come and tell me don't you make it higher than 90 for him and there I was
in a fix, well I'd have to make some of each, so I'd make some 110 and he
could drink it and he could take it pretty good, he was pretty strong

AV Wouldn't you like some of the 200 proof

DM You'd have to get a giant paper bag and pick me home and carry me out, baggy
squad

JS He was a powerful guy, you know there was a guy up at the colliery and he was
firin' at the boiler, the boiler house at the breaker, and there's guys up
there Big [???blank space] oh he was a big tall man, heavy, big strong and there was
a black iron there I forget how much pound it was, 500 and some pound or somethin'
and they just wanted to see, my daddy-in-law, wanted to have some fun that
he can't lift it so they had the block up at the breaker somewhere and they got
there all of them guys and who can lift that block well they let on, this one
that one and so on and say to the old man, now dad you lift it up, he lifted
it up and the other guys couldn't budge it up and they were bigger men and you
think they were stronger, but he lift it up, he was the only one could lift it up
I seen him take a stick of timber from that timber yard was 18 ft. long or somethin'
for fence polls or somethin' pretty thick, I guess 10 inches or so, he'd
take it on his back and walk down this way with it, I say to him, I have polls
ready, I picked them out, nice straight ones and 6 ft. long, I said you don't
want them any longer than 6 ft. you put them down 2 ft. in ground and you have
4 ft. up that's big enough and I had a bunch of them picked out and I said,
bring the wheelbarrow up and put so many at a time and you don't have to carry
them on your shoulder come over to the road and come right down with 'em, he
got movin' around with this big one and he said but I can make 3 out of this