Bugsy,
Those two critters got around. We had this one:
'Possum up the 'simmon tree,
Raccoon on the ground.
Raccoon said to the 'possum,
'Throw me some 'simmons down."
Romantic note: In 1897 sweet 16-year-old Norma Roper and her beau, Red Will Hayes (who looked just like Wyatt Earp) eloped from Maplesville, Ala, by train to your town of Rome, Ga., for a quick wedding.It was the first and only time my maternal grandmother ever left the state of Alabama.
History note: In April, 1863, after marching and fighting for seven days and nights, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest,CSA, ("Get thar fustest with the mostest men") captured an entire Union brigade under Col. A.D. Straight,just across the Coosa River from Rome, Ga.
I daresay you knew about the capture, if not the elopement.
G/W
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