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

DM: Did he work in the mines or was he always out in his garden

MS: Well he worked in the mines

HS[?]: I worked 50 yrs in the mines

DM: And you still learned all this about the woods and the garden

JS: These goddam woods there ain't a stone that I didn't tramp on

DM: I won't argue with you there

JS This mountain all the way down hole and then we'd go down the
canals [?] down the swamp huntin' and then we'd come up the mountain on the
side mountain and back all they way home and make it till dinner time and
then after dinner we'd go huntin' in another direction take another trip and go to
Porter's swamp that way hunt for huckleberries near them mountains

DM: You should write a book, you really should write a book

JS: And today by jesus it would take me a week to go like that, hell we used to go
down Hickory Run huntin' jack rabbits, all the way down, there's not a deer
down thru there

MS: You know when you were out swimmin'

JS: There's deer all over this territory, all over

DM: Oh I've seen the deer

AV: How about other things like wolves are they around here

JS: No, we chased them the hell out we told them get out of there, but fox, there's
fox around, and there's some good perfume guys around in the summer, there's
not too many but there's some, they used to be in here before they stripped they
use to come across here and if it was warm and the window was open she'd jump
right away and put the window down and he'd go across back up the other side
some place, but since the strippin' I ain't smelled any since since they ripped
that coal out of there see they blasted the rock that was on top if they were
in there in their holes that jar killed them in there or bust their eardrums and
they died