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my daddy went after his barrel of molasses and when he couldn't find it any where he sent brother Jerome up in the hay loft to look for it so there it was all covered over with hay so my daddy and Jerome bought it down and loaded it in the wagon and he hollered and told Charlie he found it and thanked him for storing it away so no one could steal it. Then another little incident happened. Charlie had an old sow that was the meanest thing, she'd gnaw & chew on a rail fence until she'd get it broken enough so she could get through into the sweet potato patch and my daddy had sent word several times for him to shut the hog up but he wouldn't do any thing about it and my father went to him twice and the last time he went he told Charlie he didn't want any hard feeling but he said now, Peters the next time she brakes into the field and roots up my sweet potatoes I'm going to shoot her so I'm warning you, because I'm tired of patching fences. So the next time she broke in he did just what he had told Charlie he'd do, so he got in the wagon and went up to his house and told Charlie he had killed his hog and she was rolling fat so if he wanted her for meat it ought to be good and sweet after she had eaten all the sweet potatoes. Anyway Charlie never come and got the sow so my daddy drug her off to the branch and some one asked him why he didn't dress it and keep the meat himself and he said no; that hog didn't belong to me. If Charlie ever got mad about it, no one ever knew it.
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