Volume 1, Number 1 - Fall 1961


Vance Randolph, in his FUNNY STORIES ABOUT HILLBILLIES tells this one:

Two tourists fished in Lake Taneycomo for two days, without any results. The third day

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they both got drunk. About the middle of the morning they happened to run into a school of giant crappie, and caught the limit within a few minutes. The boys puzzled a while about the best way to mark this fishing-hole, so that they could find it again. Finally they just cut a notch in the gunwale of the boat, and started to row back to the hotel.

Suddenly one cried out, "It won't work! We'll never find that place again!"

The other was indignant. "What do you mean, it won't work?" he demanded. "All we got to do is fish under that mark I cut on the gunwale."

His friend began to weep. "Don't you realize," he cried, "there ain't one chance in 50 we'll be able to rent that same boat tomorrow?"

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