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About Me
- Brad
- Former adult teacher who loves island beaches. Happy homebody and family man; once devoted dog owner, now without Tashi, my Tibetan Terrier. I prefer the absurdity of the imagination to the absurdity of imagining nothing.
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From Kay:
"It never should have happened".
Vignette, taken from "Days of Augusta"
They arrested the killers, yes,and put them to jail
And they waited in there for Judge Begbie,
When he came that term and heard the charge,
He said they could hang!
Well, it never should have happened, you know.
No Indians understood .
My mother-in-law, she didn't understand at first.
You see, a white man came to her house
with a bundle under his arm.
"Will you sew for me?" he says.
It meant some money, I quess, and it's always good!
"Yes,"she said, "I sew for you."
He gave her a roll of black yard goods
To make three pillowcases .
"Do you know what you have made?"he asked her
when he came back for them.
"If you don't , you go to Comer Ranch, to morrow
And find out".
And that's where she saw that black `pillowcases` again-
At Comer Ranch, on the gallows.
It never should have happened, you know.
They shouldn't have done it.
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