Lone Star Gazette (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 18, 2000 Page: 5 of 8
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with a giant glass marble
due to cold weather. That
crib, a shelter for the horses
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and drain our whole water
built that the yellow jackets
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Wood didn’t have to be toted yellow jackets nests inside,
through the whole house due and the structure was so well
burning of posts, so we could near the fireplace, a lilac bush
foresee being allowed the use and a few outcroppings of
to the corral and it was sheet
metal on forty foot high line
posts. It was full of hay.
The main product of the
Forrest place was Johnson
grass hay. The Johnson grass
On the Halves
By CHARLES CHUPP
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The other hoi ses were
Chock, Charlie, Jerry and
Emma. And Old Ben.
Chock was a big sorrel
horse who was capable of
moving the earth if a way
could be figured to hook him
to it. He had a lot of white
around his eyeballs and he
liked to kick people with his
tennis racquet caliber feet. He
would also step on your feet if
you weren’t wary, and he was
an accomplished biter. It was
best to stay clear of Chock if
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home without the burdens of home
he’d been turned out to
pasture to die. Old Ben took
his time getting it done.
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still turn it on. Hug used to
give her a good cussing every
once in a while, but she didn’t
seem to pay much attention to
him. Once in a while though,
she’d even the score by
throwing him, stepping on his
house had 10 foot ceilings.
Gogo got the sleeping porch
for her quarters, and she was
tickled about it. John Franklin
and I were assigned the
northwest bedroom. It
sported a stovepipe
installation, and we got our
old heater for our very own
that imposing tub poured
directly onto the ground, and
a giant trumpet vine soaked
up the soap and water
discharge without any adverse
effects. That vine prospered,
and had taken the whole east
side of the house. It pried
started all over when the
breeze returned.
There were other hazards
to a dependable water source,
too — each time a pipe
crossed a ditch or showed on
the surface the pipe had
suffered a freeze burst
sometime in the past. Those
ruptures were wrapped with
inner tubes and cinched with
bailing wire — and they all
leaked. Some of the leaks
approached the hemorrhage
level, and in those cases, the
inner tube compresses were as
big as an elephant’s knee.
There was, in addition, a
one inch pipe that ended at the
horse trough down at the
barn. It teed off from the
house source, and since it ran
downhill, it was the dominant
draw.
the front. The movers forgot
to turn it around when it was
on the skids, so what had once
been a back bedroom was
now a living room. The
kitchen lay left of the living
room, and true to Mr. Forest’s
word there was a hydrant over
the sink. The pipe stuck
of four bricks acted as the
other support.
Hugh was relieved to find
that there was no commode in
the bathroom. He wasn’t all
that keen on people doing
things like that in the house
anyway. An outdoor shanty
was located about a hundred
yards out to the southeast.
There were plate caliber
faster than you could heat it
on the stove and tote it out to
the bathroom.
The windmill was a half
mile away, and that distance
was all up hill for the water.
According to John Franklin’s
research, it took leventy leven
thousand revolutions of the
windmill head to deliver the
first drop to that cypress tank.
And, if the wind slacked up a
tad, the water-filled pipe
the water.
A five foot rail fence
you could manage it.
Charlie and Jerry were
brown and brother and sister.
got compressed into sixty
pound bales, and found its
way into that bam.
That first day though, was
not darkened by any
distracting or detracting
supply. The faucet bib had
been removed, but Cricket
was blessed with good teeth
or else she owne ! a pipe
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blue and it made some folks
edgy to see it, but he always
behaved himself.
Emma, or as we called her
— Immer was a grey mate and
the same size as Chock. They
formed a team and Hugh
normally used them. He
didn’t trust me with Chock,
• and sometimes my vanity
caused me to protest, but the
arrangement probably allowed
me to grow to adulthood.
Immer balked when the
going got tough. She’d just
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was a giant porcelain tub with in the winter time. The north
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To the rear of the kitchen A cypress water tank on
there were two scabbed-on ten foot legs stood just
rooms. One was a small outside the kitchen, and it held
breezeway, and behind it was its shape well as long as it got
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laccommodated that
. three-quarter inch pipe. An
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platform in the northeast
— corner, and it looked
competent to melt crayolas.
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she’d probably been asked to
pull something she couldn’t,
when she was young, and that
was her defense mechanism
when the going got too tough.
For that reason, Chock was
an ideal working mate. He
didn’t recognize any
limitation, and he’d drag
Immer and the wagon until
she got up. She didn’t like to
be scraped along the ground
much, and she was always
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a hundred years old. He could
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had been converted to a
X. sleeping porch with a seven
Cricket, an old white mare They were as gentle as lambs,
and our only dependable Their only bad habit was
saddle horse, mastered the expelling gas onto whoever
operation of the faucet on the followed them when they
trough lead. When she got were harnessed. Charlie had
bored, she’d turn the water on one glass eye. It was pale
.. of gas and hungry Joe stumbled upon an idea ■
a water bib, which stuck wind had little difficulty
through the wall above it. keeping that tank filled, when
our own wood. The new The only vegetation was that
house rules prohibited the trumpet vine, a hackberry tree
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Kestner, Laura. Lone Star Gazette (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 18, 2000, newspaper, November 18, 2000; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1528135/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Erath County Genealogical Society.