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Here is “Round Sixteen” of your
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Mail: P.O. Box 27306, Raleigh, NC 27611.
Phone: (919) 875-3062.
From Lisa Squires, Kenly
- You name your
hunting dogs after the person who gave them to you.
- You and four
of your cousins have the same middle name.
- You use bread instead
of earthworms for fish bait.
- You cut your hair on a full moon so
it will grow faster.
From Karen McNeely, Statesville
- You rode
your bicycle behind the bug machine truck just to smell the fumes.
- You
wore bread bags and rubber bands over your shoes to go out and
play in the snow.
- You could walk to the local barbershop
and get B.B. Bat suckers and Mary Janes.
- You got off at an earlier
bus stop so you could go into J.C.’s Toot n’ Tell’m
to get a “mixie” drink.
From Sam Miller, Morganton
- When you go
to work you “head to the salt mine.”
- When you leave
real quick, you “cut a choogie.”
- Something really hard
to do is like “pushin’ a
log chain up a hill.”
From Winfred Leonard, Lexington
- Mama used
a big towel to shoo the flies out the door.
- The slop bucket for
feeding the hog sat beside the kitchen stove.
- You staked the milk
cow in a new patch of grass.
From Hannah Woodcox, Lexington
- Your bird
dog fusses at you for not letting her join your private conversation.
- Your
dog shakes water on you after every bath and hopes you won’t
do it ever again.
- Your dog takes off before you have a
firm grip on the leash.
From Damier Revels, Raeford
- Your grocery
store is the smokehouse.
- You make medicine out of corn whiskey
and peppermint candy.
- You “scawer” the
floors instead of mop them.
From Treva Gregg, Reidsville
- You use grasshopper
grass to clean chicken manure from between your toes.
- You ate the
heart of a watermelon and left the rest for bees.
- You had to wear
shoes and undershirts until May 1.
From Lester Carter Jr., Fayetteville
- You
know how to make rabbit boxes.
- The old-time revivals at your home
church lasted from Sunday through Saturday with preaching every
night and sometimes during the day.
- The only time you ate hot dogs
was at the county or state fair.
- You went snipe hunting one night
and held the bag in a ditch until you realized your friends had
played a trick on you and you went home mad at them.
From Viola
Shaw, Sparta
- You ate oakballs and honeysuckle (wild
azalea) fruits in the spring.
- You held a handful of bubbies (sweet
shrubs) in your hand until they got warm so they would smell
sweet.
- You
cut your fishin’ pole in the woods and tied
feed sack thread to it and your hook, then caught grasshoppers
to use as bait.
- You drank water from the spring or creek
through a quill weed (Joe Pye weed).
- You blew bubbles with a wet
cake of soap and a wooden spool.
From Guy & Darlene Brittain,
Connelly Springs
- You sewed some car inner tubes together
and stuffed them with rags then painted diamonds on the top side
so it would look like a giant rattlesnake, then went down to
the main road on Saturday night and pulled it across the road
in front of cars.
- You went to the Fiddlers Convention at
George Hildebran School.
- A witch lives in your county.
- You went
to the Cat Square Opry.
- You tromped on the foot feed of a Model
A.
- Your job went to China or Mexico.
- You
watched your uncles roll cigarettes using O.C.B. cigarette papers
and Prince Albert tobacco.
- You go graveling for horny heads and
suckers.
- For fun on Saturday night you tied a
pine tree top behind your Model A Ford and ran it up and down
the dirt roads.
- Your first trip to the beach was to Cooksville
Beach down below Gary Whitener’s house.
From Patricia Horn,
Rutherfordton
- Your big brother would take an old bed
sheet and put you inside it and swing you in the air around and
around.
From Frances Puckett, Youngsville
- You
used pokeberries for ink and painted with it.
- Mama would give the
baby a sugar bubbie.
- Grandma would have a clean snuff can
filled with cocoa and sugar for the children’s snuff, and
you could dip like her with a real “toothbrush” made
from dogwood limbs.
- You made brush brooms using young saplings
found in the woods and tied together.
- Every fall Grampa took you “shopping” to
find the right kind of straw to make your hearth broom.
- You learned
not to sit on the counterpin (bedspread).
- You went to the creek
to get white clay to use to whitewash the hearth and fireplace.
- Your
toys were different sized jars, bottles, cans and old broken
dishes.
From
Jill & Jarvis Welch, Lincolnton
- Everything is bugbear (a problem).
- You
know that fuhuddle means crazy.
- You have an upclutter (a fit or
argument).
From Helen Buchanan, Hickory
- You mend
the croach in a pair of pants.
- You eat karn off the cob.
- You know a gapalink
is a cap lifter for a wood cookstove.
- The small cabinet
that held all the family’s clothes
was called a press.
From Jessie Potter, Goldsboro
- You know
someone whose hands are as rough as a tater grater.
- You tie a knot
in your shirt to stop a “ship-o-will” (a
bird saying “whip o will” over and over).
- You played
beauty shop in the cornfield using the corn as doll and corn
silks as hair.
- You have heard them say, “When
I die, bury me deep so the little red ants won’t tickle
my feet.”
- You count cars in a funeral procession.
- You
know that if you kill a snake and hang it up, rain will come.
- You
have heard someone say, “He paid me no rabbit
tail mind.”
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