There's a story in my family about a similar situation, which involves the word "severed." But as I don't want to embarrass my brother,
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ReplyDeleteThere's just something about people with axes. I have one in my grandmother's album of an old farmer holding an ax while he stares down at a giggling little girl. I have no idea if I'm related to either of the people, but the look on his face always makes me think "What's for dinner?"
ReplyDeleteWalter rose early that morning and took his father's axe from the shed, just as he had seen Daddy do so many mornings. The boy liked the weight of the axe in his hand and a dragged it behind him out to the woodshed, where the cat, who lived out there night and day, eyed him suspiciously, cat said, "Boy, that ain't your axe." Walter looked up at the cat and back at the axe and replied, "Yeah, says you!" and with that, Walter hoisted the axe high in the air, with some magical power and down that axe came, to sever the old gray cat's tail. The cat was never seen again and Walter kept that old tail nailed to his bedroom door till he left for good at the age of 17, some say he hitchhiked to the Badlands where he met a woman . . .
ReplyDeleteI like Wolfy's account, but I am dying to know what WALTER did.
ReplyDeleteWolfy, that's pretty close, if by "cat's tail" you mean "Cousin Earl's finger."
ReplyDeleteThe story is that Earl put his hand on a stump and dared Walter to swing the axe. Earl's okay now, but he can't point things out very well. And hates the term "finger foods."
Cousin Earl wasn't too smart now, was he?
ReplyDeleteHope Walter is enjoying the good life in the Badlands with that woman in the avocado green RV that's up on blocks . . . do they still have that red mule to ride to town on Friday nights? I liked that old mule.
Axe not what your Daddy can do for you. Axe what you can do for your Daddy.
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