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AND HORNS ON THE TOADS
Then, after I'd got everybody properly appreciating me, I'd want to get
well, so I could remind all of you how silly you looked hanging around
my deathbed like that.
On another occasion Grandfather averred that he did not
intend to die, but would just live to be a hundred years old
and then turn into a gray mule. However, it did not work out
that way. He was not quite eighty when he came down with
pneumonia late one fall. His last instructions before dying were,
"Rachel, if I don't come back, be sure and plant a big patch of
peas in the spring."
But before planting time had come, Grandmother had
joined him in that Great Beyond where we may be sure Grand-
father is in ecstasy "getting the goat" of someone within the
heavenly throng.
NOTE: Most of the stories told here were heard from David Henry Brown
himself over a period of twenty years' close acquaintanceship with him.
Of course his tales have been embroidered upon by the various children
-the ones contributing the most to these tales from an embroidery
standpoint being Beth (Brown) Hardin, Denton; Jack Brown, deceased,
Lubbock; and Thelma (Brown) Growdon, Melrose, New Mexico. Wil-
liam Henry (Bill) Hardin may have been guilty of minor infractions
in this respect also.08
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Boatright, Mody Coggin. And Horns on the Toads, book, 1959; Dallas, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38856/m1/81/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.