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PEOPLE well went by the persimmon tree last night. and started laughing, long time ago the guy up the road from us was talking about catfish bait and how to catch them big ole cats on the spring river over by baptist hill, so I scooted up a bit, he says got to gather up all the persimmons you can get raked up and put them in a barrell, let them sit for two three days and when they get good and ripe you mix corn flakes and root beer in a small bowl and when you get a good paste fix that into little balls of bait. we did not have a persimmon tree but he had two of them, man I sure would like to have me some of them persimmons, well said he, let me get you a rake young man,

I raked for hours, go ahead and just pile up them branches and leaves son,while your at it, ok. well after two days and many piles of persimmons I was ready to load the barrels in the wagon and head home, man I will never forget the ribbin I got from all the other kids, oh well sure was fun making the dough balls and sittin on the bank fishing. you guessed it caught a ton of catfish, big ones, but you would have guessed wrong,

not a bite. every time I walked to school I thought how nice that man was to teach me how to rake a simmon patch. and his wife never complained about him trackin in squished persimmons.


just remembering.

Thats a good one Beagle!!! You got Tom Sawyered!

My grandpa told me stories about when he was growing up in Portageville, MO. They would take someones hay wagon apart and put all of the parts ontop of the barn then reassemble them. Can you imagine waking up to find you wagon ontop of your barn?

ROFLMAO!!! Good one Beagle! I remember in the 3rd grade the Principle took us all out of class for a snipe hunt

According to the locals, there have been several men that died in the old round barn here on the property. Poor fellers just run themselves to death lookin' for a corner:-)

Great story! We got a big persimmon tree right next to the house, I may try that trick this fall when they ripen. Another good trick is to tell folks how good persimmons are to eat, and then watch them bite into one that ain't ripe yet; man, about the worst pucker-maker I can think of, but they are sure good when ripe. I've also heard of backwoods types who make something called 'persimmon beer', not sure what it is or how it tastes, but I heard it hits ya pretty hard after drinking a few.

man I love going out in the yard and picking up them ripe persimmons my granny use to make the best persimmon pie you ever ate.
there is another story about the time I sold some grape vines to my city cousins as ozarks mary wana. lit up a stick pretended I was high, sent them boys back to the city with 50 dollars worth of sticks, man them were the days

Ha...I sold some friends catalpa beans for $1 a piece my junior year of high school. Later they said it gave them a headache from hell and a sore throat.

slabho

Pretty thrifty feller.

You crack me up Beagle!

Lol!!!

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