>Richard, > Enjoyed your story. Your 'horse' points are well taken. When it comes >to natural body functions, once you start it's hard to stop!! Speaking of >clothes lines---When I was a teenager, my sister would do anything to >tantalize me. We went to school by running out the back door, down the >steps, across the yard, and through the path. Well, we passed the >clothesline post along the way. She would let me go first then she would go >around the other side of the post. You know the old superstition---"Bad >luck if you don't go round the same side." Of course, I would go back and >go around the same side she did, fussin' and cussin' all the way. > Then one day she came flying down the steps, ran under the clothesline >and, by chance, the pole had dropped from the line. She hit that >clothesline smack-dab across the neck. It threw her back, flat on the >ground. I felt I got my revenge that day!! Pat >-----Original Message----- >From: RichPump <RichPump@wf.net> >To: KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com ><KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> >Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 11:01 AM >Subject: Re: [KYL&F] Farm LIfe > > >>Pat: I hear that parakeet is pretty good bar-b-q-ed? <G> As for horses, >only >>thing horses are good at is running under #9 clothline and using it as >slingshot >>to sending you flying. Will use tree branch in a pinch. I lived in >England for >>several years. Girlfriend talked me in to going riding (horses) one day. >Being a >>non horseman we had to have a instructor. My horse having been woke up >early and >>having a saddle strapped to his back. Cinched down with the old knee in the >gut >>trick. Upon my settling my 240 lb. on his back, decided he needed to >relieve >>himself. The instructor started yelling to make him quit.