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My great great grand dad is mentioned in a local paper as having been arrested for killing a Baldwin-Felts agent (just a few hundred yards from where I sit this instant) who was working on contract to the Revenue Service (who did the BATFE job back in those days), but no further mention is made of him in the papers as regards the disposition of the case. The Baldwin-Felts agent was looking for a moonshine still. Bad for him that he got too close to it. However, I have a picture of my great great grand dad holding me as a child (5 generations in that one picture), so he must have got loose somehow and lived to see another day.
Grandpap lived through the Civil War, and then lived through the days when the US occupation government was trying to make life difficult on former Confederates in the annexed formerly Confederate territories to punish them. He survived, and he thrived.
Word to the wise - don't come up this holler looking for trouble and expect not to find it. Those genes still live on.
There are people in this world who are not to be screwed with. And I ain't the only of them one living up here.
Just leave us alone, and you'll live to see another day. That's all it takes on your part.
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My great great grand dad is mentioned in a local paper as having been arrested for killing a Baldwin-Felts agent (just a few hundred yards from where I sit this instant) who was working on contract to the Revenue Service (who did the BATFE job back in those days), but no further mention is made of him in the papers as regards the disposition of the case. The Baldwin-Felts agent was looking for a moonshine still. Bad for him that he got too close to it. However, I have a picture of my great great grand dad holding me as a child (5 generations in that one picture), so he must have got loose somehow and lived to see another day.
Grandpap lived through the Civil War, and then lived through the days when the US occupation government was trying to make life difficult on former Confederates in the annexed formerly Confederate territories to punish them. He survived, and he thrived.
Word to the wise - don't come up this holler looking for trouble and expect not to find it. Those genes still live on.
There are people in this world who are not to be screwed with. And I ain't the only of them one living up here.
Just leave us alone, and you'll live to see another day. That's all it takes on your part.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’