COPY!
There was(and last I'd heard,still is,as my
hunting guide, mule skinner& drinking friend told me I ought to go visit him,as he'd prolly give me a potato,,,
* editorial note*
that was obviously a thinly veiled implied suggestion to go over and help " dig up CHICKEN RAY'S " potatoes outta' the garden,,, er,,, I promptly bought a 12 pack & went straight to my HOME)
An old man,prolly about 90 something now, who'd attend "duck hunts"with us,,, as my mule buddy's father was a county sheriff's deputy who was killed in the line of duty back in the late 50's & CHICKEN MAN RAY,,, pretty much raised& was the father figure to my mule buddy, him not even in his teens when it happened, now, CHICKEN MAN got his handle from his penchant of " COCK FIGHTING ",,, which was in the final stages of being completely eradicated when I'd blew into town back in 89,,,who'd other than owning a gasoline filling station for a awhile Is the only credentials of working life's history, so,YA! CHICKEN MAN made heap big gedius raising& fighting cock roosters,he'd told me he'd paid $1,000's of dollars on the razor sharp & needle pointed spurs you attach to the spur area,,,, well, back on point,,, so we were out duck hunting & pulling swigs outta a plastic gallon milk jug of that Mexican moonshine bocanora( m.s.) distilled agava squeezin's,,, and, I tell ray to " pass me the jug" ,,,& he looked at me and said: " count the GLUG'S KID" & proceeded to preform a bubble roiling & of Olympic class style 4 glugger pull,,,&,,, I've never been the same since witnessing that particular event
* the first time I'd met him on a hunt, he'd packed a wwII GERMAN mauser rifle that had been reconfigured / barrelled into a 20 gauge bolt action ,,,Well, me being the kinda'Cat that I am, laid a "like new& minty" Ithaca mod#37 feather weight 12 ga.(free) on him, that was taking up highly coveted gun safe space&,,,er,,, I couldn't never seem to cut nary a single feather offa' anything on the wing with it ebersince I'd bought it,,,
I definitely do regret selling him a Colt's police positive model pistol in .32 long colt for $150 bucks tho