Though you'd enjoy another story about chocolate gravy. I know Dan Martin will <vbg>. Glenda * * * * * This is how I spell choclet gravy. I was raised on gravy and biscuits and beans and cornbread and we were poor and didn't want the other kids at school to know what we ate. And sometime Mama would make choclet gravy and we would put butter on top of that. There were nine of us kids so we didn't get the choclet very often but we were so happy when we did. We lived in Ohio most of our lives and, you know, they thought they were northerners. A schoolteacher told me one day that people from the South didn't have good sense cause they talked funny cause I used a short "I" instead of a long "I". Now, being from those good ole brier of Kentucky, I told her she was only a state farther north. She just smiled. I have thought of that teacher on many legs of my journey. While in college I had to take a prep class for English cause I had waited 20 years after high school to go. I corrected my English teacher for saying "brung" instead of "brought." You see, she was from the good ole state of Arkansas, another state that has been made fun of all of my life, and I might add with good reason at the moment -- depends on how you look at it whether you are a Democrat or not. My English teacher told me right fast, "Yeah, you'll have to excuse me. I have eat choclet gravy all my life and I can't spell choclet either." Devonna Sue Nobles Snodgrass <rattler@logixnet.net> born in Morgantown, Butler County, Kentucky Previously published by Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG, Missing Links: RootsWeb's Genealogy Journal, Vol. 4, No. 31, 28 July 1999.