I got a real dilema, this morning....

[Big Muddy]

i think I told ya'll this one, too....one of the worst beatings (yes, beating !!!), I ever got was when I was about 6 yrs, old, from my Dad at our old deer camp back in the '50s....sleepy-eyed, I got up in the middle of the night to pee, and just walked out on the porch of the old shotgun house, which everyone bunked in, back then.

How was I to know that the old black camp cook had come in early to start breakfast, and was sitting on the steps, right below the porch, smoking a cigarette???....he squalled like a panther, and woke up everybody.

Two things I remember--- my Dad grabbing me by my pajama tops, and dragging me behind the old out-house, and the sight of the old camp cook, standing there with his old greasy hat dripping, and that soaked cigarette, hanging out of the corner of his mouth.

My butt got whooped good, and I couldn't sit down for a week....I deserved it, too. !!!