[or-roots] A Pig Tale

[Cecil Houk]

Hi Listers:

Back durring WW II my family often went into town (Sweet Home) to shop for groceries.  We were living in the Shea house at Foster at rhe time.  My father bought that house in 1943.

There was a butcher shop on Main Street just east of 9th that was our last stop.  I have no memory of what my parents bought that day, but I do have a vivid memory of what the butcher gave my brother while they wern't looking.

He gave Doug a pig's tail.  And Doug gave it to me.  I put it in my pocket.

Nothing happened until wash day (Monday, of course).  She set up the wash tubs and sorted out the clothes to wash (we had no electricity at this time).  When she found the pig's tail...  You could have heard her scream in Albany!  30 miles away.

:-)
Cecil

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