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This is a true story about a happening in my father's teens..It is written as he told it to me..It is about his father my grandfather..
My grandfather farmed and reared 8 boys and 3 girls..He always rented a farm and grew cash crops..When all his sons got grown, he came to the cotton mill and got a job..He had to have been in his late fifties..He worked until he was 74 years old and he had a major heart attack..He lived ten more years but in ill health..
I looked up grandad, grandaddy..It can be spelled grandad or granddad or granddaddy or grandad...
Distance Has Its Charm
Long ago when grandaddy lived
Upon a tenant farm
Their closest neighbor lived a mile
Distance held its warm charm
After settling spell, work began
Each day held many chores
For children, teens, and their mom, dad
Many of them outdoors
One day nearest neighbor came by
He'd heard family arrived
Now lived in Madden old farm house
The farm they would revive
This neighbor's visits were frequent
He came tools to borrow
First one tool then another mooched
Not return tomorrow
Each time grandaddy would send son
Country mile to collect
Tools neighbor took didn't return
Return grans did expect
Once neighbor came to borrow saw
Of course didn't return
In few days grandad needed it
Ask sons in voice stern,
"Where is the saw?" Sons gave reply,
"Nearest neighbor borrowed."
Grandaddy said, "Sons do your chores".
Sad pill grandad swallowed
As he walked shorter wooded path
To the neighbor's homeplace
He did get angerier each step
Anger seemed to set pace
When he got there he asked neighbor,
"Why don't you bring tools back?".
Moocher answered, "Its too far to walk
A mile there to giveback".
Well if one thought grandaddy angry
On the far way over
One ought to have seen his high steps
When he came back aquiver
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