Hog Wild

As story about Pearl Townes Felder and Bobby Lewis Townes

As told by Bobby Lewis Townes

When I was about 9 years old, I liked to ride the hogs.  I would get on a hog, pull his tail, and he would squeal and take off running. 

One day I was riding a hog.  Pearl came outside and caught me.  I knew I was in big trouble.  She yelled at me to get off and I jumped off of that hog's back.  When I tried to run out of the hog pen to keep her from beating my ass, I slipped and fell in some pig shit.  It was wet and slimy and it got all over me -- in my hair and my clothes. 

Pearl made me sit under the pecan tree crying with that wet, slimy pig shit all over me for about three hours.  When it was time for Momma and Daddy to come home, Pearl cleaned me up in time for the line up.  She asked "Anybody got anything to tell?"  I had plenty to tell but I wasn't about to say anything but "No!"