Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After she had put the roses on the grave, Alda Sizemore commenced the story of how Old Red the coon dog got run over by a train. "It was just awful," she sighed, and then she said, "but let me go get my husband. He tells it so much better, and he was there, after...
...drop to solid rock. I figured a fall would butcher me up or kill me one. I just laid down on the side, right on the edge and just hung on. The train went on by, and I walked back to find my dog, and there he lay across that rail. It sure was a sad night...
...offered $1,000 for that dog just before he got killed," Ross Sizemore said in a sort of more's-the-pity...
...Sizemores, there was no question where Old Red's remains should rest: they put him in a sack and bore him to the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, where the rich totemic significance of the breed has been celebrated since Sept. 4, 1937, the day Troop, a coon dog of towering integrity, breathed his last. Key Underwood, who owned Troop and loved him like a son, put the dog in a 6-ft.-long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole...
...when people sought him out, asking if he was the Key Underwood, he would say, "What's left of him." Then they would ask him about Troop, and he would say, "Troop was just as humble as he could be. I never heard him growl at another dog. But when it come to Mr. Coon, that was something else. He'd walk around a coon until he saw an opening, and he'd move in there and grab him on those foreshoulders, and you could hear the bones pop. That was some dog...