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Now, this next
piece is told to me

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by my old friend, Walter Ramsey.

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All of these guys are just--

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you almost couldn't not write
something interesting or good

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because of all of these
wonderful people who

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have been around us all, my
family and everybody, most

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of the time down there.

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This is called, "Horse
Shoeing," and it

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was told to me by Walter
Ramsey who stayed at our place

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for, oh, I don't know,
about 12, 15 years.

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Walter said, "well--" and that's
an interesting phrase, well.

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That's getting time in there.

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So another thing that
happens in that country

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is that, Bill
McDonald would never--

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you don't have to
get worried, Bill.

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I'm not going to tell anything.

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I'm just using your name.

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I would never do
anything pejorative,

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to say anything about you
that you wouldn't like.

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Anyway, so everybody
in that country

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always says, if a
child is 10 years old,

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I remember, as my son
Seth was, who's here also,

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the cowboys would say, well,
how's old Sethie doing?

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And I've always
thought that that time

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gap of using the word, old,
allows everyone down there to,

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with more time, probably
more insight comes.

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Because any time that you put
a lot of time around something,

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you see it in a different way.

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And so well, or old, all of
those words, they fill time.

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And I think they're like
maybe le or la in French.

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Other languages to have el.

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El catorce, let's see, el--

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think of another.

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Every language that
has lo or la in it,

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or a feminine or a
masculine, I think

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that it's from those older ways
of speaking in which everybody

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took their sense of being
in more space and time.

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Now, Walter said, "well, one
day, I was watching a feller,

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and he was having some
trouble a-shoeing a horse.

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But that feller, he always
had his troubles shoeing.

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I sat there and
watched him a-wrestling

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with that horse's hind foot
and a-cussing for a while.

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And I saw he was a-driving
in those horseshoe nails

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into the hoof with the curve
side pointed in instead of out.

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He was a-hammering them
nails into the horse's hoof

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backwards.

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And naturally, that horse
was giving him some trouble.

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I sat there a
little while longer

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and watched him some more.

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'Course, I didn't say nothing.

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I figured to myself,
if that feller was

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as old as he was and had
cowboy'd all of the years

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that he had, and he was
still a-doing it that a-way,

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he just must not
have wanted to know."

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