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Oh for a drink of cool water.
Have you ever wanted a drink of water? I was
thinking about stories I have heard from my mother
about wanting a drink of water so bad. I was
thinking I would call this Good Old Days number
six. Then I got to thinking just what is good
about this story? I don't think some of my high up
on the money tree relates ever heard these stories
about the Bad Old Days their back yonder mother,
grand mother and aunts and uncles lived.
Oh for a drink of water.
Working the cotton fields of Arkansas. The mile
long rows of cotton. Walking dragging a sack,
picking cotton, pay was a penny a pound. Takes a
lot of cotton to make a pound. I don't know as I
was ever told how much they picked. But these was
just kids, 8 to 16 years of age, 6 kids and their
mother, picking cotton under a burning sun. All
sweating, picking cotton. All half sick from the
heat, and like of water.
When you did get to the end
of your rows, if there was any water, it was just
water, hot water. After some time they went back
home, just cross the line into Missouri. All sick,
burn out from like of water, very little money
from all of what they have worked for. You see
the cotton farmer charged so much for every thing
they needed. May have charged for the drink of
hot water.
They traveled by wagon, going
and coming. The two horses Prince and Bawly
pulling it. I heard many a story about those two.
I wonder if mother has found them up there in
Heaven, she loved them I know. Maybe one of these
days Tink and Poo will give us a report back from
Rainbow Bridge.
Have you ever thought of the
poor soldier. Past, and even now, give any thing
for a drink of cool water?
Bible tells of one wanting a
drink of water. Jesus asked the woman at the well
for a drink of water. When he was dragging the
cross, much like the poor kids dragging the cotton
sack. All worn out, give any thing for a drink of
water. Just a drink of water. The poor body needs
water so bad. The tongue is parched, the mouth is
so dry. Jesus needed a sip of water so bad. The
poor kids needed a sip of water so bad.
Water, man and animals must
have water. With out water one will go raving
mad. Let me tell you a story about a poor dog.
Maybe I have told it before. This dog was on a
chain. Hot burning day, chain got short because
dog went around the tree a couple times. Water
was just out of reach. Some one walked up to the
dog. Dog was mad from like of water, and the
heat. Well police showed up. Shot one mad dog.
There was nothing wrong with the dog other then it
needed water, BAD.. But the police report said MAD
DOG. Heck if you was staked out in the burning sun
and no water, you would go mad too, guess the cop
should shoot you too, be the same wouldn't it?
I see people carry a bottle
of water, or pop these days, about like blasted
cell phones. Never leave home with out bottle and
cell phone.
The kids of the Bad Old Days
would have liked to have had a battle of water,
much like the man with the cross.
Bill Walker
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