Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 53
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wonderful figure. Gosh, she was full-figured. So
"Pipe-up" just walked over there, and he grabbed her
by the breast and had a good feel. The hancho in
charge of her work party reported him to the gunso;
and this same gunso that had bashed the other little
two-star stood him up out there, and he just whaled
the hell out of him.
But then that wasn't the worst of it. The next
morning when "Pipe-up" came in to pick up our
working party to go out to the workshop area, he
could hardly see. His eyes were swollen practically
shut, and his face was swollen. It looked like one
of our neighbor's dogs one time that had got bitten
by a rattlesnake. His head became terribly swollen,
and he couldn't even see. His eyes wouldn't even
open. It didn't kill him, but it made him terribly
sick.
Jones: This is what the gunso had inflicted on "Pipe-up?"
Pryor: No, the three-star privates had. They had it where
these three-star privates lived in one hut, and then
they had an adjacent hut that the two-star privates
lived in, and then they had another hut that one-
star privates lived in. They were segregated
according to their rank. These three-star privates53
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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/m1/55/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.