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Sign Wasn't Right

Robert Russell Webster

00:00 / 01:25

Interviewer(s):

Cali Powell, Jeff Reaser, Mia Shang

Date of Interview:

July 17, 2019

Transcript:

'My grandparents, a lot of them, they went by the sign, explicitly, right by what it said. [Interviewer speaking] No. (...) Never have. I go by the weather, the moistures, you know, whatever, I couldn't. (...) After I got married the first time, my father-in-law had hogs. So, I tell him one Saturday, I said, "My knife's sharp. You wanna castrate them pigs, them hogs today?" Look at the sign. No, the sign wasn't right. The pig's about two, three weeks old. So next Satruday, same thing. Next Saturday, same thing. It got to where when the signs got right, the pigs weighed about fourty, fifty pounds a piece. And I was the one who had to hold them. And we had about sixty or seventy. And I told him when we got through, "Now, we're not gonna do this anymore. We gone get them when they little."

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