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Christmas Time on Newman’s Ridge

He cut two of the frozen rabbits down and handed them to one of the Maxey boys. One of the boys said “Oh Lordy, we’ll live good now!”

It is likewise commonly reported that spirits of turpentine applied plentifully to the wound will draw out the poison and effect a cure.

Him and his brother-in-law one night back years ago, about forty, went out a-bear huntin’, a-possum huntin’ or other, and treed a bear.

Lucy Furman accomplished, between 1934 and 1938, a task that seemed at first impossible of accomplishment: outlawing the steel trap.

When Jack was growin’ up, his daddy give him a brand new shotgun for Christmas. Jack was as proud as a peacock over this new gift.

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