This is old boys and I want to tell you all about something that happened to me well back and it just it was just a awful thing that happened to me and I want to tell you about it because I want you to be you know about it in case you Your face with the same kind of thing you maybe will have some idea about what to do But anyway, it happened all about about three weeks ago I guess it's just fella come out to my trailer and he told me that I had been involved in a common law marriage and Said my wife was swearing off against me and was gonna you make trouble for me and wanted either You know me to I think he said a knowledge the marriage or give her half of what I had That's what he said well, I never had her tell us such a thing and and I got the pitchfork and run him off and And about two hours later this fella come by told me he was a sheriff Well, I never you know seen the sheriff, but he told me he wasn't sure if I didn't have no reason to doubt him and He told me that I had to be in court Monday morning unless I could get it settled. He said I'd have to go to court Monday morning And he told me this old girl was squaring off against me and was gonna take a half of what I owned Well, I've got 23 of their Curious hosting cows over here that that you've ever seen and and I sell Mjork and buttered, you know to the lumber camp out here and to the To the police department and the fire department. I make a good, you know good living, but I mean I'm not rich and nothing like that but anyway, I Called my buddy Door and asked him about it because I know you know He always hips me out in times of trouble and and he told me there was such a thing as a common law marriage said If you stayed with the girl That you know for over seven years that she could claim a common law marriage and would you could be considered? Your wife and I told old old old I said well, you know, I didn't I didn't have no rope fastened to her I didn't have no chains on her.
She didn't have to stay over here, you know, and he said that didn't make no difference He said if I was staying with her that That was a common law marriage and he said that She could take half of all that I owned if she wanted to unless I wanted to settle out of court with her And he told me that what I ought to do is you know offer, you know three or four cows and and see if she'd settle for that well That didn't sit right with me, but I got to study about it and you know I didn't want to lose half of everything that I'd worked for you know, that's all I've got out is what I've managed to to save with a lot of hard work and and labor and for that girl to come over here and take half of what I had What I had earned over the years Didn't seem just exactly right to me So I studied about it and worried about it and had to you know talk to different people and they all told me the same thing Dole said you know, and I know he was telling me the truth Well, I'm about to run out of time. So I'm going to continue this here in just a little bit with the next installment of this Well, I'm this old boys with you again. I'm all going with my my story I was telling you but I was telling you, you know about this old girl trying to Take a take myself, you know trying to trying to keep me out of myself Well, I worried about that for a day or two and there's this old girl over here that lives next to me She you know, she's not a girlfriend and nothing She's just a good old girl named Fosse and Fosse is a good old girl I guess he I guess O'Fosse is way about 300 pounds. She's a whole lot bigger than I am She she got a hog farm over here about old about two mile down the road and She comes she ain't got no television.
She'll come over here watch television with me from time to time She likes all the old shows, you know like a rifleman and and Harry Mason. She just loves that Harry Mason, you know he's just Lawyer that and he'll take these cases and you swear that these people guilty But somehow the Harry Mason knows about him and and he'll take the cases and he won't you know, he won't he won't Say a word for somebody if they're guilty. He got to know you know that they're innocent before he'll take their case but He takes these and you always know who's gonna win I don't know why she likes to show so much because you always know Harry Mason's gonna win and he there's this other feller They call him hamburger and he's a district. I think they call him a district attorney and What he has to do is is prostitute all these people You know that that Harry Mason takes up for work That's his job You know to prostitute him and so he just can't stand here Mason he gets mad at him and and they argue around but anyway Harry Mason always wins and that's that's the show this old flossie really does like and like I say She ain't got no television and she come over here and watch it watch it with me and you know, I let her watch Harry Mason Well, I told her about this old little girl, you know trying to get my stuff and and she know this girl said seen her before you of course she's seen her around here, yeah, and She said well said I'll uh, don't you worry about it.
I'll take care about Hussey's what she said I said I'll take care of her said I'm gonna have a come to Jesus talk with her It's what she said said I'll just have a come to Jesus talk with her and don't you worry about it cuz I believe I can handle that Hussey that's what she said and Well, I didn't think she could do nothing about it But you know, I always liked I always thought no old about stuff and he does, you know, don't adore so real Smart feller But anyway old flossie she come over there or I mean she left there and went over and talked to that girl I guess I guess you had that come to Jesus talk whether that she told me about that she's gonna have and and Boy, it wasn't that's where it wasn't an hour to that girl come over there and She was telling me she was talking a whole different tune in and said that she didn't she didn't want to have any any racket with me at all is what she said and I'm I'm running short of time here So I'm gonna continue with this story on the next segment of this show So y'all just waiting out there. You what happened? Well, I'm this is old Lois back with you. I'm gonna try to wind this story up if I can but In ways she told me this old girl told me that she didn't she was just joking.
She said Said she didn't mean what she said and that she didn't want my stuff Well, of course, I run her off and told I didn't want to hear that cuz I know she wasn't joking But I know what happened. I know old flossie had gotten after and you know, oh flossie She's a great big old girl. She's a lot bigger than I am. She's about 6'2 and she'll go all 300 pounds easy she's a She's a well, she's as big as a as a prime sale and I'm not I'm not talking about her She'll tell you the same thing.
She is just a great big old girl Well, she come back over there and she was bringing a bunch of silver, you know Forks and knives and spine talking about flossie now She come back and she was bringing all this silver's just forks and knives and these pictures and stuff like that Well, I guess I need to tell you that up. I was married to old Thelma for about 23 years before the Emma Paistone to her eternal reward I was married to her and when when we first got married these people give her a wedding bath, you know, that's where they have a party and and Give you all these presents and they call it a they call it a wedding bath There's what they call it and so they give her all this all this silver knives and forks and pictures And of course Thelma never did use it. She just polished it and and put it on the put it on the shelf up there And I never did pay any attention to it. Well, this old girl that that I was telling you about Her name was Brenda and she was she was carrying that stuff off over there Well, I didn't care because I didn't care nothing about it.
And so I know she was doing it, but I thought well if she wants that stuff Well, anyway Flossie come in and scare and all this stuff back at the pictures and them forks and knives and and I said hold on I mean it flossie. I said I don't want to know that stuff back I said I know though Brenda was taking it, but I didn't you know I don't want to know that stuff you if you want it you can have it and oh flossie told me said that stuff is worth a Whole lot of money and that's what she said. She said, you know, you can get a whole lot of money for that stuff And I said well, you know, you help me flossie and I said if you can get some money out of it And you want to sell it you just take it and sell it and whatever you can get you welcome to it That's what I told her I cuz you know, she helped me out and I told her whatever she could get She could have it well folks out. I'm gonna tell you something Flossie took that stuff off and about the next day or maybe day after that she come back and she said shoot I ain't gonna keep all this and you know, you know folks She had about two thousand dollars in her pocket there that she had got from all that silver that that girl had stole And I told her I said flossie.
I told you you could have that I said she said no she said she didn't want it it belonged to me and I said well, I'll tell you what let's do let's just take this money and Let's just have us a good old time. Let's just have us a barbecue out here and invite everybody and And We'll just have a good old barbecue and spend all this money cuz this is money I didn't know I had you know, well, I'll wind this up in the next next segment This is old blowers and I'm gonna wind this up now cuz I think this is going on long enough But I thought everybody be interested in this but anyway What I done with that money that old flossie got for me. It was old about I believe it's $2,117 what it all told her to that girl had stole from me old Brenda had stole that money from me well, I went off and got a boat up old four or five cases of beer and You know, sold water a bunch of that and I've got a couple of coats and Old flossie's she's making some potato salad and and got some pork and beans I think she said she's gonna make some make some baked beans and and slaw and and She's a your flossie's a damn good cook she really is and she's fixing some big old pan of banana pudding and I'm fixing to have a real good time out here a good old fashion picnic is just as quick as spraying comes and it's warm enough and I'm on vital whole door out here and and and Wes and Tracy and on my buddies out here and we're gonna we're gonna eat up every bit of that money that that girl stole from me what we're gonna do is we're gonna have door prizes and old flossie's getting up with door prizes and And we're gonna have a band come out of here old old Charlie Snokes, I know y'all heard him and he's gonna bring his band out here And we're gonna have us a whole down I mean a real good old fashion time We're gonna all get drunk all those that won't do you don't have to get drunk if you don't want to but you know I'm aiming to and and I know door will and we're gonna bring I'm gonna bring doors gonna bring the wife and and I'm gonna have old flossie over here and we just gonna have a good old fashion time so I want everybody to remember this and you you got to be careful folks because I'm not saying that all women but a lot of women if they can get you in a bind they will so don't don't believe everything you hear and Don't don't fall forever scheme that they try because I found out that that old boy that come out here in the first place Was he just old boy from town at that girl node and that guy that said he was a sheriff He wasn't no more sheriff than I am so that just showed you what can happen to you and so just be on your guard That's all I'm telling you just be on your guard and so I'm a windest story up and I hope that I hope you learn something from it But if you don't learn nothing else just be careful. That's all I'm telling you