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Elbert Marshall Dean, Jr.
Home was the Porter place. The ladies' outhouse was directly over the little wagon (barn to the right). Junior posed in the flower bed in front of the house. Mom always had so many beautiful flowers. Uncle Burtis once brought out a billy goat. Grandpa Dean made a harness out of old leather straps, complete with traces. Junior hitched up the goat to a wagon (like the one at left). When the goat pulled, the wagon jerked forward and clipped the goat in the hind legs, spooking the goat. Billy goat raced forward, spilling Junior, and leaving the wagon hanging on the cross brace of the windmill. Junior got a bigger wagon and tried again. Same results, but this time the goat leaped over the front fender of the 1929 Nash, leaving the wagon hanging on the front of the auto. No dents in the fender, though. Billy goat met his end because whenever anything or anyone entered the farm yard, he insisted on jumping up on top of the chicken coop, bleating at the visitor, and stamping holes in the metal chicken coop roof. Grandpa Dean patched the holes with tar and got rid of Billy goat. (recollections by Elbert Dean, Jr.)
Elbert Marshall Dean, Jr.
