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False Teeth
Barbara Pugh
00:00 / 02:02
Interviewer(s):
Jose Alvarez, Matt Champagne, Cali Powell, Walt Wolfram
Date of Interview:
June 20, 2019
Transcript:
"But going back before I was born, I had a cousin that momma and daddy, that lived with momma and daddy until he was probably nine for ten years old, something like that. And just last month he was telling me the story that he had two dogs that an uncle had given him and they were sorta just dogs, but they were rabbit dogs. They would hunt rabbits. And he named his dogs Tater and Popeye. And this would have been during the 30s and the Depression era when there was just not much money around. And so probably like a lot of people of the area, people had their teeth pulled and got false teeth. And so daddy had his teeth pulled and did not have his false teeth, okay. Dr. Rosco Farell was the local Pittsboro dentist, and so daddy was trying to figure out how he was going to pay for his teeth. And Dr. Farell was a rabbit hunter and so they worked out a deal and daddy gave Tater to Dr. Farell as payment for his false teeth. And everyone said that they felt so sorry for Bill because daddy had given away his dog, you know. But Bill said, "I didn't mind at all" he said, "because I was trying to figure out how dad was going to come up with some money to get his false teeth." So it turned out. Well, so anyway, Dr. Farell would take Tater hunting along with whatever, I don't know much about his hunting habits. But, wherever he went hunting, when it was time to come home, Tater was always missing. And Tater would always wind up at daddy's house. So after a while Dr. Farell just told daddy to keep the dog, that his teeth were paid for. "
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