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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
If you've listened to our show for any length of time,
you know that I love Jerry Klower. I love storytelling.
I think he's one of the best storytellers to ever
walk the earth. I think he could have been a
great pastor. Of course, he was a great comedian. He
was a great salesman. Before that, he was a great
speaker at fertilizer conventions and the light, which is kind
of how he developed and fell into being a comedian.
(00:26):
And when when when a country comedian like him tells
a story, it's not about the punchline. It's about the journey.
It's about how he tells the story. In most cases,
the punchline itself is not set up, and then you
know this explosive punchline. It's the humor is in the journey,
(00:51):
It's in the telling. So this is one that I
don't think we've ever played from Jerry Clower, and it's
called why Can't Johnny Read?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Every now and then, I get aggravated, and most of
my albums I expressed myself about certain issues here. Lately,
I've been reading in the paper, I've been listening on
the radio, and I've been watching on television and everybody
is saying, at one time or another, why can't Johnny read? Yeah,
(01:29):
that's the topic of America right now. And I got
to thinking about this, and the other day I read
about a bunch a PhD learning folks what meant for
about three days at a seminar, And at the end
of the seminar they commenced to telling people why Johnny
(01:52):
can't read. And I got sick at some of the
reasons they gave.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And gentlemen, the.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Main reason Johnny can't read is Johnny don't.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Give a chair whether he can read or not.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Now, I ain't talking about them folks that's handicapped or
got bad eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm talking about folks that are able bodied.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But yet the society we live in today tells them
how underprivileged they are and how awful it is that
they wasn't born into affluency. Listen, boys and girls, listen
to Jerry Clover when I tell you this is the
United States of America.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And if you want to.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Do it, and you got that bulldog, hang on foreverishness
in this country, you can be a winner. Why the
other day, one of them learning it, fella said, and
(03:05):
the reason Johnny can't read no better than he can.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Is due to the energy crisis.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Johnny didn't get.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
To go to school or nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Woo. Another reason Johnny can't read, folks, is Johnny's mama
and daddy.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Don't give a care whether he can read or no.
They ain't interested in him.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
They find out he can't read, then they go to
blaming the teacher of the schools.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I know some of them people. I've talked to him
about it.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And I'd say listen here, I'd ask him, I say, look,
what's your little boys teacher's name?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Said, we don't know, we never have meta. Yeah, that
makes a lot of sense, don't it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
They get to find it out he can't read, then
they get to looking for a patsy and they want
to blame it on somebody else when they ought to
be more concerned about their own child.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And folks who are guardians of children.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Parents are guardian need to be more concerned about whether they.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Can read or not.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But don't tell me it's an energy crisis. Let me
tell you about the energy crisis we had at Eastport Consolidated.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
High School when I went to school.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Whoa, we didn't have no energy crisis cause we didn't
have no energy of no kind. We didn't have no
running water, we didn't have no natural gas, we didn't
have no electricity. We had a big wood heater. If
you got cold, you could put some wood in that
and build a fire. When you wanted to go to
the bathroom, you raised your hand and said, teacher, may
I go under the hill. You know what, those of
(04:44):
us in that underprivileged school that wanted to learn how
to read, learn how you you hear me, we learned how.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And talking about don't go to school.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
We started in September, didn't go but a half a
day because we got out early to pick cotton. Then
when the spring would come along after Christmas, we'd get
out of half a day to go home early and
fly and plant crops. We didn't have an eight month
school all told, and we didn't go but half a
time then. But those of us who wanted to learn
(05:22):
how to read, who had mamas and daddies who told
us that we wasn't underprivileged.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And we had the right to learn how to read if.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
We wanted to listen, huh, I studied by a kolaid lamp.
If some of the people of today had known the
situation I was, then they'd have told me of how
bad off I was, and I'd.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Have probably growed up not being able to read. Yeah,
but nobody had told me.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
While I was flying to Nashville to do the grand
old opery here, I got to thinking about them eight
folks that finished Eastport Consolidated High School in the year
nineteen hundred and forty four. Whatever happened to that underprivileged
bunch that went to that school without energy crisis? And
(06:15):
I got to thinking about where they were. The first
one I could think of, he's.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
A retired Army colonel.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The next one he's a retired commander served in the
United States Navy. The next one is very wealthy in
real estate. The next one he's a top chemist for
a petrochemical company in America. The next one he's a
(06:49):
top geologist for a top all company in America. The
other two they were girls and they married well. And last,
but not least, those people who vote on these such
matters say, for the last five years in a row,
(07:12):
he is the number one country comic in all the world.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I know. I said he's a comedian, and that story
wasn't funny, but I knew that going in it was
his message I wanted you to hear. With that said,
here is one that's funny. It's one that my brother
could do word for word. It's one that number of
friends of mine and I we will often say, shoot
(07:40):
up up, shoot up here amongst us, one of us
got to have some relief. But John, this is one
of my all time favorite stories, not just comedy stories,
not just Jerry Clare's. One of my all time favorite
stories ever.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
This is called a coon Hunting Story by Jerry Klower.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
First of all, I want you to that I come
from Route four Liberty, Mississippi. Now that's twelve miles west
of McComb, Mississippi, sixty five miles due northeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
and one hundred and sixteen miles due north of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It was there that I first saw the light of day.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Out of Amitt County, September the twenty eighth, nineteen hundred
and twenty six.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I was born there. Now, as I.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Grew up in that community, the only extracurricular activities that
we engaged in was to go coon hunting or go
to revival meeting if we had.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
A crop laid by, and that's all we did except work.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And this particular day that I want to tell you
about is one evening when we were.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Going coon hunt.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We had a pack of hounds. When we went to
mill with our corn to get it ground up. We'd
get some ground for dog bread, we'd get some ground
for just regular corn meal for human consumption.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
This particular day, we wasn't too busy.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All we had done is just cut down a few
fence rolls shutting shells from corn, and went to mill,
drew up some water because that was wash day. Helped
get this side back what rooted out from under the
net wire fence sharp and two sticks of store would
real sharp and peg them down over the bottom wire
of the fence where the hog couldn't root out no more,
(09:27):
and had a rat killing. If I'm lying, I'm dying.
We had rat killings in those days. Well, this particular day,
after we got through the rat killing, I walked out
on the front porch and I hollered, and them dogs
come out of mother's house barking. They knew he was
(09:47):
going to cook hunt. And I hollered again in my
neighbor way across the sage patch, hollered back, and that
meant I'll meet you halfway. We met in the middle
of that sage patch and he had his dogs over,
Brumming and Queenn and Spot, and I had Tory and
Little Red and old Trailer. And we went out into
the swamps and we started hunting. Oh, we was having
(10:09):
such a fine time. Caught four gret biggins. I heard
a racket and it scared me, and I whooked my
car by light what I had wired to my cap
around now, and I was looking in the vicinity of
where I heard the racket coming from, and the beam
of light hit a man right in the face, and
it lacking to have scared me slapped to death because
(10:30):
we was hunting on this man's place. I said, mister Baron,
is at you? He said, yes, jemy, what are y'all doing?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We hunting? How many have you caught? Four gret diggings?
He said, well, boys, glad to see you. Y'all want
to spend the rest of the evening hunting with me?
And John? Well, I looked and Lord and the whole
there was John U Bans, a man that lived on
mister Baron's place. John U.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Banns was a great American. He was a profession no
tree climber.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He didn't believe.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm telling you the truth. He didn't believe in shooting
no coon out of no tree. It was against his upbringing.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
He taught us.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
From birth, from the day we were born till the
age we could keep listening to it. Give everything a
sporting chance. Whatever you do, give it a sporting chance.
He'd have been a great conservationist today if he'd be here.
And John said, take a crosscut salt coon hunting with me.
(11:32):
When you treat a coon, hold the dogs and cut
the tree down, or either climb the tree and make
the coon jump.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
In amongst the dogs. Give him a sporting chance.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
A lot of times we'd climb a tree and make
a coon jump in amongst twenty dogs. But at least
he had the option of whooping all them dogs and
walking off if he wanted to.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
This is strictly left up to the coon. So I said,
mister Baron, we'd be glad to go hunting with you. You know,
he was a rich man. He he had sold a.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Lot of cotton during the First World war for a
dollar a pound. He had some world renowned dogs, and
we hollered three or four times, and they started hunting,
and we listened and directly old brummy.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Old Brummy didn't bark it, nothing butter coon.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
They had a deep boys bad and when he cut
down on him, it was a coon.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Don't worry about no possum on no bobcats.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Brummy was running a coon and an old trailer, and
ohigh ball and them famous dogs and mister Baron's got
in there with them, and old John new Banks and holler,
hey speak to it, and my brother son and ha
hou look furth and oh it was beautiful. Now y'all
get this picture bout that time they tree we rushed
(12:50):
down into the swamps and that the dogs were treed
up the biggest sweet gum tree and all of ame
at river swamps.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It was huge. You couldn't reach around this tree.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
There wasn't a limb on it for a while, way
up the huge tree. And I looked around at John
and I said, John, I don't believe you can climb
that tree. And it hurt John's feelings. He posed his
lips out, got fighting mad. He said, there ain't a
tree in all these swamps that I can't climb.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And he got his broken.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Shoes off, and he eased up to that sweet gum
tree and he hung his toenails in that bark, and
he got his fingernails in there, and he kept easing
up the tree, working his way toward that bottom limb,
and he finally got to it and he started on
up into this big tree. Knock him out, John, It
won't be long. And John worked his way on up
to the top of the tree, and who what a
(13:46):
big one? And he reached around in his overhauls and
got that sharp stick and he drawed back and.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
He punched the coon. But it wasn't a coon. It
was a lynx. We call them soup up wildcats. And the.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And that thing had red big tushes coming out of
its mouth and red big claws on the end of
its feet, and people, that thing attacked John up in
the top of that tree.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
WHOA, you can hear John squawd? What's the matter with John?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I don't have no idea what in the world's happening
to John?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Knock him out?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
John? WHOA?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
This thing's killing me. The whole top of the tree
was shaking. The dogs got.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
To bite in the bark of the tree and fighting
one another underneath the tree, and I was kicking them
like you dogs, get away.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What's the matter with John? Knock him out, John, this
thing's killing me. And John knew that.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Mister Barron told the pistol in his belt to shoot
snakes with and he kept holling, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Shoot this thing? Have mercy? This thing killing me?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Shoot this thing, and mister barras at John, I can't shoot.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Up in that I might hit you.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
John said, well, just shoot up in here amongst us.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
One of us got to have some relief.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
If you've listened to our show for any length of time,
you know that I love Jerry Klower. I love storytelling.
I think he's one of the best storytellers to ever
walk the earth. I think he could have been a
great pastor. Of course, he was a great comedian. He
was a great salesman. Before that, he was a great
speaker at fertilizer conventions and the light, which is kind
of how he developed and fell into being a comedian.
(00:26):
And when when when a country comedian like him tells
a story, it's not about the punchline. It's about the journey.
It's about how he tells the story. In most cases,
the punchline itself is not set up, and then you
know this explosive punchline. It's the humor is in the journey,
(00:51):
It's in the telling. So this is one that I
don't think we've ever played from Jerry Clower, and it's
called why Can't Johnny Read?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Every now and then, I get aggravated, and most of
my albums I expressed myself about certain issues here. Lately,
I've been reading in the paper, I've been listening on
the radio, and I've been watching on television and everybody
is saying, at one time or another, why can't Johnny read? Yeah,
(01:29):
that's the topic of America right now. And I got
to thinking about this, and the other day I read
about a bunch a PhD learning folks what meant for
about three days at a seminar, And at the end
of the seminar they commenced to telling people why Johnny
(01:52):
can't read. And I got sick at some of the
reasons they gave.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And gentlemen, the.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Main reason Johnny can't read is Johnny don't.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Give a chair whether he can read or not.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Now, I ain't talking about them folks that's handicapped or
got bad eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm talking about folks that are able bodied.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But yet the society we live in today tells them
how underprivileged they are and how awful it is that
they wasn't born into affluency. Listen, boys and girls, listen
to Jerry Clover when I tell you this is the
United States of America.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And if you want to.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Do it, and you got that bulldog, hang on foreverishness
in this country, you can be a winner. Why the
other day, one of them learning it, fella said, and
(03:05):
the reason Johnny can't read no better than he can.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Is due to the energy crisis.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Johnny didn't get.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
To go to school or nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Woo. Another reason Johnny can't read, folks, is Johnny's mama
and daddy.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Don't give a care whether he can read or no.
They ain't interested in him.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
They find out he can't read, then they go to
blaming the teacher of the schools.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I know some of them people. I've talked to him
about it.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And I'd say listen here, I'd ask him, I say, look,
what's your little boys teacher's name?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Said, we don't know, we never have meta. Yeah, that
makes a lot of sense, don't it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
They get to find it out he can't read, then
they get to looking for a patsy and they want
to blame it on somebody else when they ought to
be more concerned about their own child.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And folks who are guardians of children.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Parents are guardian need to be more concerned about whether they.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Can read or not.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But don't tell me it's an energy crisis. Let me
tell you about the energy crisis we had at Eastport Consolidated.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
High School when I went to school.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Whoa, we didn't have no energy crisis cause we didn't
have no energy of no kind. We didn't have no
running water, we didn't have no natural gas, we didn't
have no electricity. We had a big wood heater. If
you got cold, you could put some wood in that
and build a fire. When you wanted to go to
the bathroom, you raised your hand and said, teacher, may
I go under the hill. You know what, those of
(04:44):
us in that underprivileged school that wanted to learn how
to read, learn how you you hear me, we learned how.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And talking about don't go to school.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
We started in September, didn't go but a half a
day because we got out early to pick cotton. Then
when the spring would come along after Christmas, we'd get
out of half a day to go home early and
fly and plant crops. We didn't have an eight month
school all told, and we didn't go but half a
time then. But those of us who wanted to learn
(05:22):
how to read, who had mamas and daddies who told
us that we wasn't underprivileged.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And we had the right to learn how to read if.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
We wanted to listen, huh, I studied by a kolaid lamp.
If some of the people of today had known the
situation I was, then they'd have told me of how
bad off I was, and I'd.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Have probably growed up not being able to read. Yeah,
but nobody had told me.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
While I was flying to Nashville to do the grand
old opery here, I got to thinking about them eight
folks that finished Eastport Consolidated High School in the year
nineteen hundred and forty four. Whatever happened to that underprivileged
bunch that went to that school without energy crisis? And
(06:15):
I got to thinking about where they were. The first
one I could think of, he's.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
A retired Army colonel.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The next one he's a retired commander served in the
United States Navy. The next one is very wealthy in
real estate. The next one he's a top chemist for
a petrochemical company in America. The next one he's a
(06:49):
top geologist for a top all company in America. The
other two they were girls and they married well. And last,
but not least, those people who vote on these such
matters say, for the last five years in a row,
(07:12):
he is the number one country comic in all the world.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I know. I said he's a comedian, and that story
wasn't funny, but I knew that going in it was
his message I wanted you to hear. With that said,
here is one that's funny. It's one that my brother
could do word for word. It's one that number of
friends of mine and I we will often say, shoot
(07:40):
up up, shoot up here amongst us, one of us
got to have some relief. But John, this is one
of my all time favorite stories, not just comedy stories,
not just Jerry Clare's. One of my all time favorite
stories ever.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
This is called a coon Hunting Story by Jerry Klower.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
First of all, I want you to that I come
from Route four Liberty, Mississippi. Now that's twelve miles west
of McComb, Mississippi, sixty five miles due northeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
and one hundred and sixteen miles due north of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It was there that I first saw the light of day.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Out of Amitt County, September the twenty eighth, nineteen hundred
and twenty six.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I was born there. Now, as I.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Grew up in that community, the only extracurricular activities that
we engaged in was to go coon hunting or go
to revival meeting if we had.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
A crop laid by, and that's all we did except work.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And this particular day that I want to tell you
about is one evening when we were.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Going coon hunt.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We had a pack of hounds. When we went to
mill with our corn to get it ground up. We'd
get some ground for dog bread, we'd get some ground
for just regular corn meal for human consumption.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
This particular day, we wasn't too busy.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All we had done is just cut down a few
fence rolls shutting shells from corn, and went to mill,
drew up some water because that was wash day. Helped
get this side back what rooted out from under the
net wire fence sharp and two sticks of store would
real sharp and peg them down over the bottom wire
of the fence where the hog couldn't root out no more,
(09:27):
and had a rat killing. If I'm lying, I'm dying.
We had rat killings in those days. Well, this particular day,
after we got through the rat killing, I walked out
on the front porch and I hollered, and them dogs
come out of mother's house barking. They knew he was
(09:47):
going to cook hunt. And I hollered again in my
neighbor way across the sage patch, hollered back, and that
meant I'll meet you halfway. We met in the middle
of that sage patch and he had his dogs over,
Brumming and Queenn and Spot, and I had Tory and
Little Red and old Trailer. And we went out into
the swamps and we started hunting. Oh, we was having
(10:09):
such a fine time. Caught four gret biggins. I heard
a racket and it scared me, and I whooked my
car by light what I had wired to my cap
around now, and I was looking in the vicinity of
where I heard the racket coming from, and the beam
of light hit a man right in the face, and
it lacking to have scared me slapped to death because
(10:30):
we was hunting on this man's place. I said, mister Baron,
is at you? He said, yes, jemy, what are y'all doing?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We hunting? How many have you caught? Four gret diggings?
He said, well, boys, glad to see you. Y'all want
to spend the rest of the evening hunting with me?
And John? Well, I looked and Lord and the whole
there was John U Bans, a man that lived on
mister Baron's place. John U.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Banns was a great American. He was a profession no
tree climber.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He didn't believe.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm telling you the truth. He didn't believe in shooting
no coon out of no tree. It was against his upbringing.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
He taught us.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
From birth, from the day we were born till the
age we could keep listening to it. Give everything a
sporting chance. Whatever you do, give it a sporting chance.
He'd have been a great conservationist today if he'd be here.
And John said, take a crosscut salt coon hunting with me.
(11:32):
When you treat a coon, hold the dogs and cut
the tree down, or either climb the tree and make
the coon jump.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
In amongst the dogs. Give him a sporting chance.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
A lot of times we'd climb a tree and make
a coon jump in amongst twenty dogs. But at least
he had the option of whooping all them dogs and
walking off if he wanted to.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
This is strictly left up to the coon. So I said,
mister Baron, we'd be glad to go hunting with you. You know,
he was a rich man. He he had sold a.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Lot of cotton during the First World war for a
dollar a pound. He had some world renowned dogs, and
we hollered three or four times, and they started hunting,
and we listened and directly old brummy.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Old Brummy didn't bark it, nothing butter coon.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
They had a deep boys bad and when he cut
down on him, it was a coon.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Don't worry about no possum on no bobcats.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Brummy was running a coon and an old trailer, and
ohigh ball and them famous dogs and mister Baron's got
in there with them, and old John new Banks and holler,
hey speak to it, and my brother son and ha
hou look furth and oh it was beautiful. Now y'all
get this picture bout that time they tree we rushed
(12:50):
down into the swamps and that the dogs were treed
up the biggest sweet gum tree and all of ame
at river swamps.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It was huge. You couldn't reach around this tree.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
There wasn't a limb on it for a while, way
up the huge tree. And I looked around at John
and I said, John, I don't believe you can climb
that tree. And it hurt John's feelings. He posed his
lips out, got fighting mad. He said, there ain't a
tree in all these swamps that I can't climb.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And he got his broken.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Shoes off, and he eased up to that sweet gum
tree and he hung his toenails in that bark, and
he got his fingernails in there, and he kept easing
up the tree, working his way toward that bottom limb,
and he finally got to it and he started on
up into this big tree. Knock him out, John, It
won't be long. And John worked his way on up
to the top of the tree, and who what a
(13:46):
big one? And he reached around in his overhauls and
got that sharp stick and he drawed back and.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
He punched the coon. But it wasn't a coon. It
was a lynx. We call them soup up wildcats. And the.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And that thing had red big tushes coming out of
its mouth and red big claws on the end of
its feet, and people, that thing attacked John up in
the top of that tree.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
WHOA, you can hear John squawd? What's the matter with John?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I don't have no idea what in the world's happening
to John?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Knock him out?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
John? WHOA?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
This thing's killing me. The whole top of the tree
was shaking. The dogs got.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
To bite in the bark of the tree and fighting
one another underneath the tree, and I was kicking them
like you dogs, get away.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What's the matter with John? Knock him out, John, this
thing's killing me. And John knew that.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Mister Barron told the pistol in his belt to shoot
snakes with and he kept holling, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Shoot this thing? Have mercy? This thing killing me?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Shoot this thing, and mister barras at John, I can't shoot.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Up in that I might hit you.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
John said, well, just shoot up in here amongst us.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
One of us got to have some relief.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
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