8-12-08... WE SNITCHED SOME SNUFF
Well folks, I was gettin' ready to go on to school days but got side tracked. I found some old pictures in the old trunk that was my Great Grandma's. Also found her old black purse. Oh my did that bring back some loving memories. Granny carried that ol' black purse everywhere. Hardly ever put it down when others were around. It was hers and it was private and we knew we were not supposed to touch it. Mama said one day to us,, Do not even get close enough to it to breathe cause Grandma Mattie will know. Well, Come on now, she shoulda known us better'n that, Don't ya think. But then maybe that's why Granny never put it down. OOOOOOH. After all these years I GET IT!!! WEll I'll be, HMMM. Anyway back to that purse. Brenda was not really Granny's kin. She was from the other side of the family. But who knew, we sure didn't. We had lots of Grandma's and Grandpa's. Anyway Granny dipped snuff and she was vwry neat about it. Never saw it on her teeth or running down her chin. No sireee. She had her little can in that black purse and a little bitty doll spoon to dip it with. Oh it was just so facinatin' to us, how we would love to get a hold of that teeny little spoon and do what Granny did. One day we got our chance. Granny sat her purse on a table in the front room(what they call living or family room now a days. Front room to us then and now) so she could stir up one of her delicious cakes. Makes my mouth do crazy things right now just thinking about that chocolate cake. Scrumpdidilious. Yep the best. Brenda come on lets go look in Granny's purse. Oh boy she was ready. Wouldn't a done it on her own but I doubt that I would have either. We crept in there and very quietly opened that wonderful mysterious black purse. Oh my grasious sakes alive, what treasures we found. Mints, gum, and other stuff we weren't interested in right now. I grabbed the snuff can and the teensy weenesy spoon and we took off. Now there was a door in the front room but we went right through the kitchen and out that door. You girls get outta the kitchen now and stay outta the way my Mama said. Well we were a gettin' yep, we were a gettin fast. We ran around the side of the house and plopped down in the grass with our treasures. I took some on that cute little spoon and said here Brenda. Nope you take that one then I will. I popped that in my mouth and very fast got another spoon full and popped it in Brenda's mouth. OOOOHHHH, it don't taste good we both spluttered out. That's when our lesson started. Yep it was a long lesson. We started spitin' and gaggin' and splutterin. It was coming out our noses and going down our throats. We got strangled of course, couldn't even holler for help. I was gettin' sick and Brenda said she was too. Well we got morbid. We lay there holding on to one another, cryin', splutterin' and thinking we were gonna die deader'n door nails. Well we were ready, we were to sick to die though, we were just huddled on the ground bellerin' when Mama and Granny got there. Oh yeaw The troops had arrived right on time just like they always did. Mama said later that she got to thinking we were acting kinda funny whan we had come through the kitchen. Well her and Granny decided they better see what we were up to. The whole snuff dippin' episode probably was only a couple of minutes from start to finish but it seemed like hours to us. Mainly because we got sooooo sick. Bawlin' like a dying' calf sick my Granny said. We didn't get to eat any of Grannys chocolatecake that day. Couldna' if theyd' a let us. TOO durn sick. We were really sick sick sick. Never wanna be that sick again. Guess they figured that was all the tannin we needed or maybe we kinda scared em a little. We sure nuff thought we were gonners that day. That old Black purse is still in the trunk and that teensy spoon and a can are still there. But ya know what I have very seldom ever opened it again. It seems like a sacred thing to me almost. The last time I opened it (yesterday) I could feel my Grannies presense and I started geetin' kinda sick'. All in my mind?? Don't know the answer to that. Nope don't know...
