Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 48
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six of us that worked out there because a couple of
them worked in camp. But we had a list of the ten
best looking Thai girls there was in among about
2,000 of them that worked out there. We had a list
of ten. Occasionally, we'd revise it. We'd see a new
one, and we'd moved one of them off of the ten, and
we'd put her in some order on there. But they had
one out there that held the number one position for,
oh, a great length of time. I had been the ushi man
at one time. I had herded the cattle the Japanese
kept in camp, and we killed one a day regardless of
whether it weighed sixty pounds or six hundred
pounds. We killed one cow each day.
The Japanese officer finally decided that I was
too familiar with some of the natives around there.
And I was familiar with them. I knew when the little
girls went to the village to buy stuff for resale--
mangos, papayas, bananas, thread, tobacco, eggs,
peanuts--and I'd know when they would come back
along the trails from the village. They'd resell
them through the various kampongs (that would be a
collection of two or three, four, five huts, you
know, in one area. So they would stop and rest for a
minute, and they' d put their "yo-ho" pole down with48
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/50/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.