Subject: Moonshine Uncle Hez.was a good man in his way,yes he made moonshine whiskey,(the best) to him it was a fine art, he felt like he was making an honest doller for the doctors around had to have it for making medicine,and making moonshine whiskey was hard work too,like carrying one hundred pound sacks of sugar on your back for a mile through the woods,and never going to the still the same way for making a trail would get you a visit from the revenue dogs. Like the day he spotted a pack of them from his lookout spot on a high place above his still,getting too close to his still,but after he bouned a few rifle balls off trees around them they cut a trail for home,another thing as bad was revenue dogs was hogs in an open range country, they love corn mash and are not very careful around your still and can cause a problem. Unk Hez. was a smart man that done alot of long range planning to stay a step ahead of the law.so he was thinking the Judge goes to a church in town and is a friend to all his brothers and sisters in the church and would go easy on any of them if they ever came up before him in court,so ole unk Hez. started going to church and joined,by coincidence it happoned to be the church where the judge went so thinks ole unk.Hez. I will sneek the judge a little nip for his stomach sake and I will have him eating out of my hand,so in a short time it seemed the Judge was taking the bait,and it was working, the judge loved unk Hez's brand. Everthing was going fine,Unk hez.and brother Joe was getting the still ready for a run when bro.Joe noticed a loose rivet in the pot so unk Hez. gets inside the pot to buck the rivet and unk Joe was tapping it with the hammer outside when he looks around and sees the revenue and sheriff coming,what else was there to do but run,Unk Hez inside not knowing what was going on outside said,says tap it joe I am ready,and about that time an ax comes through the side of the still,"Oh Joe You played the devil then I ment with the hammer" Unk. Hez.looking outside the pot .and what does he see but the smileing face of the sheriff"OH No they say sooner or later ever old fox gets cought no mater how sly". "You got me sheriff I am your pickaninny."Off to the slammer, what a bad place to spend Saturday night,Sunday morning findly comes and the ladys from the church comes to the jail to sing and preach to the jailbirds,First song was "YOU CAIN'T DO WRONG AND GET BY NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU MAY TRY"and on and on it went. Court day rolls around and our hero is standing before his brother Judge,The Judge has the floor and telling the court about the evels of the fire water this peace of human trash is making that causes little children to suffer.so here comes the verdict,"Hezekiah Palmer I sentence you to a year and a day in the state prision. The year and day slowley passes and ole Hez.is getting off the train and there to meet him is nobody but his bro.the Judge.With a big smile and his hand out he makes his way to to Unk.Hez.And says "WELL HOW DID YOU FIND IT DOWN THERE BRO. HEZ? Unk Hez.looked him in the eye and said,EVER D---- PERSON DOWN THERE WAS MEMBERS OF THE SAME CHURCH WE ARE AND WHEN I GET TO HELL I EXSPECT TO FIND THE REST OF THEM, AND YOU CAN GO ON NOW FOR WHAT I CARE.walking away Uncle Hez.says to himself,if anybody asks where I been for the last year I will tell them I served a year in congress they can take or not I will let it go at that.