Ha, ha; I know how the dog got his name, Stanley; Kump was governor of WV back in the hardtimes 1930 s. Kump & Hoover, the president,took their share of the blame for all our economic woes back then ! We kids called our patched up clothes :Hoover badges " <grin> Nowadays, the kids cut holes in their new pants; back then we patched em to keep out the winter cold.What a difference in today's youth, and what we had to endure back then ! Shelby ************************************** Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)

Shelby, You are an expert at getting me sidetracked, but I must tell you more about "Ole Kump." You are correct; he was named after governor Kump, who served 1933 to 1937. Old Kump, the dog, never appeared to get excited about most things, but would lie around the house all day most days giving evidence of life only by an occasional snap at a hornet that came too close to him or a walk to the branch that flowed by our house to get a drink of water. He was an outside dog and never expressed any desire to come in the house, summer or winter. But old Kump hated snakes. He hunted them. And he found them too. He was a snake-killing machine. He would grab a copperhead by its middle and shake it violently from side to side until it lay senseless on the ground. He then applied the coup-de-grace by biting it to death. Every summer, he was practically eaten up by snakes and his head was scarred all over and swollen until he resembled a pig on steroids. But he kept going after the snakes. One day ole Kump did not return from one of his hunts. Now an old guy, we figured he had chosen to find some isolated place where he could die without being bothered by unwanted attention or fruitless efforts to prolong his life. STAN By the way, I enjoy your coal mining stories. Its a subject that I know little about but enjoy hearing the old miners talk about. One thing that impresses me is that a miner never seems to forget men they have worked with and rarely will they miss the funeral of one of their own. SB On Nov 23, 2007, at 10:24 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Ha, ha; > I know how the dog got his name, Stanley; Kump was governor of WV > back in the > hardtimes 1930 s. Kump & Hoover, the president,took their share of > the blame > for all our economic woes back then ! We kids called our patched > up clothes > :Hoover badges " <grin> Nowadays, the kids cut holes in their new > pants; back > then we patched em to keep out the winter cold.What a difference in > today's > youth, and what we had to endure back then ! > > Shelby > > > ************************************** > Check out AOL's list of 2007's > hottest products. > > (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007? > NCID=aoltop00030000000001) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVLOGAN- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message