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From: "G. Lee Hearl" <>
Subject: [KY-FEUDS] New Dug Grave in Ky.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:46:12 -0700
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To All:
Several years ago I got interested in coon huntin' and I heard about a man
in eastern Ky, named Roscoe, who had some prize-winning coon hounds for
sale.. My brother knew the area pretty well so he went with me to look at
the hounds.. I picked a hound which looked pretty good and told Roscoe I'd
like to see and hear it run before I bought it.. He said okay and went into
the house and brought out a fruit jar of corn likker, "to keep us warm", he
said. It was a chilly fall evening.. Roscoe and my brother started drinking
right away.. we had hardly reached the woods when the jar was empty! We were
going down a path when we heard the coon hound barking...sounded as if it
had treed something... We couldn't agree on where the dog was, so we split
up and went in different directions.. After tramping throught the brush
about an hour, I decided to head back to the house.. I came to a graveyard
and there was a new dug grave with a big pile of dirt beside it.. ready to
bury someone the next day I supposed.. I was going on down the hill when I
heard somone talking back at the cemetery... I listened... it sounded like
my brother, so I walked back up the hill.. a voice was saying, "It's cold
down here, It's cold down here!"
Then I saw someone with a flashlight approaching...so I stopped and watched
as Roscoe stumbled into the graveyard.. My brothers voice said "It's cold
down here!" Roscoe shined the light into the grave and on the pile of dirt
and said, "It ain't no wonder you're cold feller, you've kicked all the dirt
off!
We pulled my brother, who has laying flat of his back at the bottom of the
grave, out of there and we went home.. I guess that coon hound is still
barking!
G. Lee Hearl
Authentic Appalachian Storyteller
Abingdon, Va.

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