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EAST TEXAS FAMILY RECORDS VOL.16, NO.2, SUMMER 1992
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THE OLD TIME COUNTRY STORE
This story was submitted by Ruby Neilson. It is one she ran arose
in a March 18, 1908 issue of the TYLER COURIER TIMES, and was written
by Joe Sappington, in the WILLS POINT CHRONICLE. We thought our
Li ' readers might enjoy it as much as we did.
*2 I fear that the old time country store, with its big, tall plank i s
front bearing the startling news that "John Smith deals in everything
(id from a sulky plow to a tallow candle," is about to take its place in
the land of fossils, along by the side of home-knit socks, the populist
party and the razor-back hog. When I was a small boy, the sight
of a country store always awed me and caused a chill to chase up and
down my spinal column. I remember very vividly the first time I was
brought face to face with a country store. I was about seven years
old at the time and was wearing a linsey dress and pair of mud boots
with brass toe attachments and was accompanied by my father.
Everything worked all right until I got to the store door, where
I could see the big advertising pictures, the tin pans hanging from
the ceiling, the nail kegs, the big coils of grass rope and could
hear the store keeper talking in a strange, low mellow voice. I then
jerked loose from father, gathered up my linsey skirt and made a dash
for liberty and the open country, and would probably have made my escape
had not my dress caught on a splinter as I went through the fence.
Father then picked me up and carried me into the store and tried to
soothe my tears by telling me that nobody would hurt me, and the store
man loved little boys; but I was in no soothing mood, as I could plainly
see that my life was in danger; so I proceeded to squall at the top
of my voice, kick father, the store keeper, tin pans and everything
else that I came to with my brass-toed boots. My father, seeing that
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