Word: cateymount
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cateymount wasn't making enough trouble, a-hollering outside like a woman at night, the school board at Vanceburg, in Kentucky's Lewis County, ordered Joseph Johnson to send his three children back to school. Johnson, a stern 65-year-old man of the hills, just did not believe the school board understood the situation. His three sons had to walk along a branch and down a holler and did not get home until after dark. He sent his 26-year-old son, Orville, to town on muleback to explain about the wildcat...
...drove into Vanceburg in his threadbare overalls, mule whip over his shoulder, determined to get his rights. He got a setback from the school superintendent, who told him he had not thought he would ever see a Lewis County man afraid to fight a wildcat. Father Johnson admitted the cateymount had him purely frightened. "I've never been afeard of man ner beast," he said, "but when that old cateymount yowls near our house it just makes my hair stand plumb straight up on my head." The old man hoped the authorities would bring in dogs to track...
...county allowed the Johnson boys a week at home and put a $100 reward on the cateymount. At week's end a posse brought hounds baying into the holler looking for the cat. But the Johnsons did not venture out with them. "Not for a hundert hundert," said Orville...
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