Ky hills
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My grandfather hunted and sold hides. Coons were scarce back in that day.
They told a story about him selling hides, one time before Christmas he and my grandmother went to the big city of Lexington Ky for the dual purpose of him selling his hides and her looking around for some Christmas ideas. My grandmother would look around the clothing stores and get ideas and patterns to make clothes. They took her mother with them and didn't tell her about the hides. Along the way she kept saying she smelled polecat. Every where they stopped she'd comment on it, they never did tell her he had some skunk hides in the vehicle.
People did what they had to do no shame in making an honest living.
They told a story about him selling hides, one time before Christmas he and my grandmother went to the big city of Lexington Ky for the dual purpose of him selling his hides and her looking around for some Christmas ideas. My grandmother would look around the clothing stores and get ideas and patterns to make clothes. They took her mother with them and didn't tell her about the hides. Along the way she kept saying she smelled polecat. Every where they stopped she'd comment on it, they never did tell her he had some skunk hides in the vehicle.
People did what they had to do no shame in making an honest living.