Ya'll watch this!

My old boyhood friend, Mark Eddard, told me that I need to slow down on putting stuff on this geneology web site thing. He said I would get plumb tired of it and probably quit. So, taking that to heart, I'm going to just tell you a little story about a distant cousin of yours, Merriwether McKimbrey.

Once, he was hunting with your great-great grandfather, they was boys at the time, and they come up on a slough that had a big old gator in it. They stopped to take a break and get a drink when that cousin of yours come up with a brilliant idea. Merriwether pulled one of the dead quail out of his bag and told your gggp, "hold my beer and watch this!"

He took hold of a branch with his left hand and leaned waaay out over that slough holding that quail gingerly between his thumb and forefinger in his right. That gator jumped up and took that quail right out of his hand just like that and his thumb and finger went with it.



And, he didn't seem to have no interest in going back in after them, neither.