OLD POMP

     We also had an old dog we called old Pomp. We thought as much of him as we did old Tom. We used to go rabbit hunting with him, and we always brought rabbits home! Well, it finally came time for old Pomp to die too. We had to drag him off into the woods too.     We paid him the same respect that we paid old Tom.

     For a long time after I came back from Oklahoma, I would go back around our old homestead just to see if I could find any kind of marking us kids made when old Tom died. About all I could find was in a little wooded area where Dora, my sister, and I had chopped out a hole in the hollow tree so we could twist out a rabbit our dog had treed.

SQUARE DANCING

     In 1898, while we lived on the Hillfontain Farm, a lot of people gathered together for a big Square Dance. My Pa and one of his brothers, Uncle Tom Dacus, decided to have some fun.

     They got themselves a long string and gave it a good rosin. Then they attached this string to a loose board on the wall of the house close to the top. They let everybody dance a few sets, then they began that rosin string.

     Pretty soon the dancers began to pile out of the house to try to see what all of the noise was. Pa and Uncle Tom would not rub the string as long as they were all out of the house. They waited until they wee all back on the dance floor. Pretty soon the people all got excited and started leaving for home.

     All the time this was going on, there was a bad

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