Life of a Hobo Barber (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Life of a Hobo Barber I will at first give the reader of this book a brief story of my childhood days. I was born in the year 1881, in the county of Whitely, State of Kentucky, in the mountains between the Cumberland and Pine mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. These two states are very rough in two ways: the country has large mountains and are crested with cliffs and timbers. The people in these mountains and states have practically no laws at all except those that they make themselves and in this way protect their own rights. Speaking about Abraham Lincoln being born in a log cabin, he has nothing on me in this line. I was born in a one-roomed log cabin and lived there till I was fifteen years of age. I never wore a pair of factory made shoes until after I came west. The good times of any childhood days always recalls back to their old play grounds, however this has never been the case with me as my life was passed for fifteen years with such rough and hard knocks that I have not had any desire to return to the old birthplace. I could tell the readers many things about these two states but it may not be of any interest to you. My father owned a large farm covered with mountains and timber and the land on said mountains was so steep that the pumpkins would pull themselves off the vine and roll into the sink holes in the field or go to the lower side of the field and lodge in the fence and we never had to go over the fields and gather them up for they harvested themselves. These two states are the home of the real ground hog that you read about seeing himself on the fourteenth day of February each year. This animal does not resemble a hog except his hair, which is somewhat shorter, and his ears; his fighting qualities are like those of a badger and it takes a good dog to kill him, at least two dogs have better luck, although a mountain cur that understands his business will give the hog a very interesting fight. The principle means of making a living in these states is farming a small acreage of corn, raising a few hogs and working in the timber. Our home place, as I said before was covered with timber, most of which was Poplar; this we sold delivered to the creek what would be called in this country a river. We cut the logs twelve, sixteen, eighteen and twenty feet in length and each tree would make from two to three or four logs owing to the length cut and the height of the tree. These logs would run in diameter not less than two and one-half feet at the small end and about ten feet at the large end and were called saw logs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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