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We run pretty white sand through. it end called that our meal and flour. My white folks would come down to the branch and watch me run the little toy mill. I used to make toy rifles and pistols and all sorts of nice playthings out of that soapstone. I wish I had a piece of that good old soapstone from aroundFranklin, so I could carve some toys like I used. to play with for my boy.“

	‚.	“we caught real s alnion in the mount a in st reanis ‚ „ ~Tohn remarked. “They weighed from 3 to 25 pounds, and kind of favored a jack fish, only jack fishes have duck bills, and these saixaon had saw teeth. They were powerful jwnpers and when you hooked one you had a fight on your bands to get it to the bank no matter whether it weighed 3 or 25 pounds. The gamest of all the fish iii those mountain streams were red horses. When I was about 9 or 10 years old I took my brother‘s fish gig and went off down to the river. I saw what looked like the shadow of a stick in the clear water and when I thrust the gig at it I found mighty quick I had gigged a red horse. I did my best to land it but it was too strong for me and pulled loose from my gig and darted out into deep water. I ran fast as I could up the river bank to the horseshoe bend where a flat bottom boat belonging to our family was tied. I got in that boat and chased that fish ‘tu I got him. It weighed 6 pounds and was 2 feet and 6 inches long. There was plenty of excitement created around that plantation when the news got around that a boy, as little as I was then, had landed such a big old fighting fish.“
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