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Mine Run‘‘MINE RUN- Una»*oit©lt;i pioducf a* a mitm: banco an lt;* Ilka kindnot upecUteaily cki««ifcied: a m«41e? thought ok idacw/*Diction a r?(By Shot-Firer, SubKitutin* forMine-Runner)Ben At to of Dugger route one wonders if some of the older readers of Mine Run can help him 3ut a little Mr. Atto has a fragment of a song running through his head and wants- to know theremainder of it-*Here it is: (as remembered by p/r. Atto):WHEN TIIE GOOSEPONI)WAS THE GOOKEPOND Whan bacon was scarce andHumphreys had none, le rallied his dogs an,d shoulder ed his gun.Vway to the Goosepond Humphreys did steer Po drive out the wild hogsVnd kill out the deer.* * *Phe old spotted sow she lay in her bed,»he heard every word that Hum | phreys had said. Jhe arose from her bed and endeavored to run,Jut Humphreys soon stopped her, with the crack of his gun.*If any of the older readers of, this column can supply the remainder of the words* to the song they probably would make a val uable addition to the library of folklore of early Greene county.) The song, no doubt, refers to Andrew Humphreys, grandfather of And.v Humphreys of Linton. MrAlto said that he learned the songRom his father, the late Isaac Atto. |fr-■^ y i :?P': '-r*The song probably was written in the period shortly before the Civil War (War between the states, if vou're from below the Mason Dixon line). A book pre pared a few years ago by the Indiana Writers’ Project mentionsMr Humphreys in connectionwith the activities of the Knightsof the Golden Circle, who had the Goosepond area as theirheadquarters in the 1860's.
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Linton Daily Citizen
Linton, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 10, 1947
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