Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 49
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the baskets swung from each end of it, and when
they'd get up and move on, well, there would be an
egg left there, and that was left for me. So
(chuckle) I was getting along a little better than I
should have been expected to, I suppose, and this
Japanese officer finally determined that and took me
off of the cattle detail.
He sent me back out to the workshop area, and I
was in charge of a work party, then, that laid water
lines into these various shops. One day I was out
there and a Japanese soldier came for me from our
camp and said, "Ushi man, you come." He said, "Ushis
all jungle go." They'd gotten a new herd of cattle
in the day before to replenish the bunch that we'd
had, and they'd put a couple of Englishmen and an
Irishman on these cattle, and, gosh, they'd taken
them out, and they didn't understand...they just
barely knew which was the front end of a cow and
which was the rear end of a cow. They had taken
those cows out, and they were wild, and, gosh, they
had gone to the jungle. They had just disappeared.
He hadn' t been with them, and he knew the Japanese
shoko (officer) would just beat the hell out of him
because he hadn't been with them. He was off down at49
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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/m1/51/?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.