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(Continued from Page 27) Cleave, 15 miles from Ocean Springs along the Pascagoula River Road. In the early spring the woods are a mass of dogwood, wild azaleas and mountain laurel. This road borders the Pascagoula Swamp, which is not so well publicized as the Okeefenoke Swamp and the Everglades in Florida, but just as interesting. The miles of swamps abound with deer,
wild turkey, foxes and other game. The creeks and bayous are second to none in all fresh water fishes.
A day spent with one of the natives as a guide around the swamp fishing, hunting or just investigating the country will pay off in pleasure. These people are entirely different from those found on the coast, and while they definitely are not the Red Necks that William Faulkner writes about upstate, they are, to say the
least, different! If you can get them started they can tell some of the biggest tales you ever heard. Some are - true and some just grew!
Nothing you can tell them of city life is more interesting than the animals that inhabit their swamplands: the tales of the big ’Gator; the new deer tracks; the cat fish trot lines; the report of a gun deep in the woods during closed season; the latest coon hunt; and the vicious wild hogs that
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