Pig in a Poke

By Robert Ray Moon

Two young boys seeking worldly wisdom behind the barn and other places and their escapades in business and in finding a good wife.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Ray Moon
• Release date: Oct 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310357664

Robert Ray Moon

I am married to Hazel for 66 years. We have 4 grown children. We are retired ministers and are each writing a blog. I am currently writing fictional continued stories on my blog and publishing e-books.

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PIG IN A POLK

Author Robert Ray Moon

Copyright 2013 Robert Ray Moon

Smashwords Edition

ISBN: 9781310357664

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Chapter 1 The beginning

Tis a strange title to be sure but the logic will prevail as the story unfolds.

T’was not the night before Christmas but was certainly the night before something when Charlie and I were born. He were a might older than I, say fifteen minutes or so.

Since Charlie was the name I would have selected if I had a choice (which I didn’t) the name Charlie were already taken when I arrived so for me, they settled on the name George.

Something you need to know is both of our moms were at the birthing place at the rear of the midwives abode. The first sounds Charlie and I made were at that place.

Later as boys Charlie and I would often go down to our birth place and the screams we heard were frightening although we eventually got used to it.

We would try to hold our breath during screams. Charlie could make it once in awhile until the screaming stopped but I never could.

I knew all about how the animals reproduced, but I couldn’t believe human beings did it the same way.

Uncle Saul was the one I went to when I had an embarrassing question and this was one of them so when I couldn’t stand not knowing any longer it were to Uncle Saul’s place.

I never failed to get an answer from him although I found out later he wasn’t always right on. In fact sometimes he missed it be by a lot and since this was so very important I decided to explore the question further.

I discussed this with Charlie and he was as confused and interested as I was so we set out to find the answer. We laid out a plan which included asking the preacher’s wife. Then there was Miss Mary cause she had a new little one every year for a number of years, actually until her husband died later on.

We heard there were some ladies that might know about it but they were way down on our list for it was said they charged for information.

The time came when we started out on our pursuit for knowledge and we went to the preacher’s wife. Charlie said maybe we should ask the preacher, but I thought since the wife was the one who produced the children, we should go to the horse’s mouth so to speak.

Gingerly we knocked on the back door of the preacher’s house and the wife came and asked what we wanted. It was decided Charlie should do the talking cause he was the oldest.

I couldn’t hear exactly what he said, cause he talked real low but I reckoned she heard him for she started hitting