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Now back in the old days,about the time your MaMa and i were married,we lived in an old log cabin back up in a wooded hollow near where the Taladega National Forest is now,we didn't have electricity,we lit our house with kerosene lamps,the type that has wicks and glass globes,we didn't have no running water either,we had to draw our drinking water from a well and kept it in a bucket on the back porch with a tin dipper to dip the water out and drink it,we washed clothes outside in a big black iron kettle on an open fire and used home made soap made out of pot ash.
Your MaMa, your Aunt Agnes and I decided one day to cook a dumb supper,now a dumb supper is supposed to be cooked in total silence,no talking,no laughing nor gigling and served at midnight,afterwards you are supposed to walk around the house three times and maybe see somthing that will scare you half to death.On this night,there was a full moon,shinning so bright that you could actually see your shadow on the ground as you walked.
Anyway,we gathered all the makings up,we had decided to cook a ho cake for our dumb supper which is a corn meal pan cake,so to speak,we cooked it on an old wood heater which was set up in an ajacent room to the main kitchen,after cooking the meal,all in total silence,we walked slowly to the back door,i unlatched it,intending to open it slowly to make it creak and groan in a spooky way,sniggering in my mind at the effect it would have on the ladies in the dim light of the kerosene lamp and quietness of the old log home,however as i began to open the door,it was suddenly blown completely open so violently by a strong wind that had popped up that it banged the side of the house with a hollow sound,sort of like the echo in an old empty house that has been to long alone.At the same time,a brilliant flash of lightening lit up the night sky,followed by a great rolling peal of thunder that seemed to bounce off every tree and rock in the surrounding hills,in that flash of lightening,i saw that a peachtree was being blown over so hard that it's branches almost touched the ground!During all this sudden clamour, some ones white horse ran through the yard,heading for parts unknown and dragging trace chains and making enough gawdawful noise to wake the dead!I sammed that door shut,locking it securely,we all went to bed vowing never again to cook a Dumb Supper!
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