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to Lamar County. Coy remembered hearing of the incident,
and assured him it was his Mother that dreamed about them
being ill. He said he had always wanted to see her again, and
thank her. He was so regretful that he had lived less than a mile
from her for these three years and did not know it.
When my brother, Buster, was about sixteen years old he
thought he had to have a pistol to carry. It was the "in" thing to
do, for all the boys were doing it. Keeping it a secret from my
parents must have been the main thrill he got out of it.
There were not gangs in the rural community where we lived,
and the pistols were not carried because of fear or for self defense.
The boys seemed to be showing each other they were
growing up. Buster knew Dad and Mother would not approve,
so he got the pistol and intended to keep it secret from them.
His chief problem was Mother's psychic abilities.
Late one Saturday afternoon Buster was dressing to go out.
Mother was in bed sick, and she dreamed that Buster had a gun.
She woke up and told Dad, asking him not to let Buster leave
the place with it. Being upstairs, right over her bed, Buster
heard what she said. He knew he couldn't leave the gun upstairs,
and was afraid of being caught with it when he came
down. So he took a cloth string and tied the gun securely to the
inside of one leg inside his pants, just above the knee, thinking
he could safely come downstairs with it.
When Dad heard him start down, he went to the bottom of
the stairway and waited. In his kind voice he asked Buster to
give him the gun. Of course, Buster denied having a gun. Dad
was legally blind all of his life, and some days he could hardly
see anything. In feeling up and down the outside of his son's
legs, Dad did not detect the tight strings through the thick pants,
so Buster went on.
He didn't enjoy the evening, however, because he was afraid
Mother would dream about his gun again, and she did. To play
it safe when he came home, he hid the gun in a truck tire that
was in the hayloft of the barn, and stuffed hay around it. Early
the next morning he heard Mother telling Dad exactly where
the gun was. He quickly slipped down the stairs in sock feet,
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Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Redshaw, Peggy A. Texas Family Secrets, book, 1997; Sherman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20209/m1/35/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin College.