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I have lots of fond memories
of my life in Hughes County and the Moss area. Most of you may remember
that our home place was just east of the schoolhouse . By the road, it was
1 1/4 miles, but across the pasture, it was only about 3/4 of a mile.
There was a nice little creek just south of our place that was usually
pretty alive with fish, mostly perch, but to a kid , a fish is a fish!
My brother and I and usually the neighbor kids, would
take our poles, catch some grasshoppers for bait, a skillet to cook in,
and head to the creek. It had a low-water bridge just below the White’s
homestead and it was an ideal place to fish. We would catch our fish,
build us a campfire, and cook the fish right there on the creek on a big
old flat rock. The rock isn’t there anymore. Progress has changed the
low-water bridge, too.
You know, to this day, I can’t remember us cleaning
those fish, but they sure tasted good. My brother, Rick, assures me that
we did gut them, but didn’t cut off the head or tail. I’ll have to check
with the Roberts’ kids, Jean Carol, Gerald Lee, Kathryn, & Mary Ann, to
verify that statement. They were the ones we fished with the most.
Eulene (Noblett) Teakell, Class of 1960 |