"Hey! What happened last night?"

This is a true story, told by our neighbor, that happened many, many years ago.

We visited them often, and I always enjoyed their stories of older times. Her family then lived on a farm in Lee County. They grew lots of grapes. Each year when the jelly had all been made, her mother would take the grapes and make juice.

One day she called the children to take a churn full of juice that had fermented and told them to pour it out. They took the fermented juice and poured it in a ditch.

The family also raised lots of geese and picked part of their feathers each year to make pillows and feather beds.

The geese got in the ditch and drank the fermented wine. Later that day, the children found the geese "dead" in the yard. They ran and told their mother, and she was horrified that her geese were dead.

She and the children picked off ALL their feathers and threw the geese in the woods. The next morning there they were, very much alive and not a feather on them! They had passed out drunk. She said it was the funniest sight they had ever seen!

Geneva Lowe
Bear Creek
Randolph EMC

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