This is old boys and I want to tell you a little bit more about a hot shot now I just like to tell you about these people that lives down here because I think they're real interesting people and Probably people like you ain't never met before But I told you the last time that old hot shot. He is a good old boy and he likes to you know He likes to take up for people and and take up for the underdog But he also he's got a lot of Smuncibility, you know about But a lot of pride that's what I'm trying to say. He's got a lot of pride So see he he's real poor always has been his daddy died and he ain't got nothing much But uncle Fred, you know has led him him and his mama living his house all this time and he never charged him Nothing so hot shot when he got to be about 12 years old He started going down there and working for uncle Fred and I told y'all this last time, but I'm just reviewing it a little bit, but See uncle Fred tried to play hot shot and hot shot said no uncle Fred. He said I ain't gonna take no money He said you've been letting us live in your house and you ain't never once asked us for no money or nothing And he said my mama can't she can't Help you none, but she said I can do some work and try to help pay back which you have did for us And so say uncle Fred.
He is real grumpy He just way he is he don't mean nothing. He just is a real grumpy person But if you show uncle Fred that you trying to help you with self He'll try to help you that's just the kind of fuller he is and a lot of people don't know that about uncle Fred because they think he's They think he's grumpy which he is but that just a cover up, you know for because he's got a big heart Uncle Fred has and if he sees that you're trying to do something for yourself Then he'll try to help you in any way he can and uncle Fred is about the richest man in this country He don't ever spend nothing, but he's got a lot of land and a lot of money and a lot of houses and You know, he just he just well all Uncle Fred is he's about I think he's 87 years old But anyway, he told me he told me more than once that he was gonna make sure that hot shot was provided for When he died meaning he's gonna do something for him make sure that his future is secure is what uncle Fred said But anyway, I wanted to tell you all that to get you to this story that I was gonna tell you about hot shot and Hot shots only fault if it is a fault is that he he likes to brag he can't help it. He just you know, he'll When he ever he gets around people he'll start bragging and so Them kids up there at school they was razzing him about getting thowed by that meal You know, I told you a while back about a hot shot and junior losing the money and and and how they was trying to ride the meal And how hot shot got thowed or at least that's what juniors said but hot shot He was bragging up there at school and them kids got to razzing him and he said I didn't get though by the meal He said I got off of him and the kids, you know, jr. Said no, you didn't hot shot You got that meal with old you and hot shot said well, I could ride that meal anytime I won't do and one word led to another and And the kid said well if you can do it, why don't you do it and hot shot said cause I don't want to and they said Yeah, you don't want to you just scared to and of course that was the wrong thing to say to hot shot cause you don't tell hot shot He's scared of nothing.
He said all right just to set you up I'm gonna do it and he told I believe see I didn't know nothing about this Now this was all going on up there school and I didn't know nothing about it at all and And uh the first that I knowed about it was I believe it was a week ago Money I believe it was week ago money. I was eating breakfast up there I just milked the cows and uh and I was eating breakfast and and Emily had already gone to school And I heard this racket out in the yard and uh I looked out the door to see what it was and they was about 10 Or 12 kids standing around out there. They wouldn't hurt nothing. They were just you know leaning on the fence and and uh So I asked them what they was doing and they said they was waiting on the hot shot So I didn't ask them no questions.
I went on back in the house and Was eating my breakfast and directly the racket got to be louder and louder And uh, I didn't know what it was and I went outside again And I guess there must have been 200 250 people standing around out there kids and and uh and some of them was grown people And they were standing out there and uh they wasn't hurting nothing They was just talking and making a lot of racket And so I said what in the world is going on out here and they said well Mr. Porter said that ain't you heard said hot shot is going to ride the mule And I said the dickens you say and they said yeah, he's supposed to come up here and ride the mule today And uh, they said I don't know if he's really going to do it or not But he said he was and I said well I can tell you one thing if hot shot said he was Then he'll be here Now I said I don't know about his riding the mule, but he'll try it if he says he will So while I was standing there, I looked down the road and no hot shot was coming up the road And he had this cowboy hat on and a parabola uh blue jeans, you know, western jeans and a western shirt. I don't know where in the world He got that outfit But he got it and he was wearing it up the road and he was the strutting, you know He know that he was being watched and so he was strutting up the road And the kids was all hollering at him and uh making a lot of racket, you know And some of them were saying hot shot I didn't think he would show up and stuff like that and I went over to a hot shot and I said hot shot They tell me that you come up here to ride the mule And he said yeah, that's just exactly what I'm gonna do And I said hot shot now I'm gonna tell you something and I said you're gonna get killed riding that mule I said ain't nobody never rode that mule and I said that mule won't let you ride him And I said he'll get you off of his back one way or another I said if he can't book y'all I said he'll run up against a House or side of a shed and scrape you off. I said he'll run under a clothesline I said you see that clothesline out there.
I said that mule will get you off his back one way or the other And hot shot said I ain't worried a bit about that mule And I said well all right hot shot I said I ain't gonna tell you not to do it But I'm just telling you that I don't want to see you get hurt and I'm afraid that's what's gonna happen to you And he said that mule ain't gonna do nothing to me So I said all right if nothing else to do you come on out here and and I led the mule out of the barn And uh I said all right hot shot here he is now you take over and all the kids were saying Hot shot are you gonna really ride him uh and uh hot shot was strutting around out there and bowing and taking his hat off and Stuff like that. Well, well, we didn't have a saddle for the mule reason We didn't have ones because that mule you could ride that mule And so it wasn't no needin' to have in a saddle But I did have a blanket in the barn and we put that blanket on that mule's back And uh after strutting around there for a while finally old hot shot come up there and uh he jumped on that mule's back And believe it or not that mule just stood there And hot shot rode that mule out to the barn out to the road He had a we had a bridle on the mule and hot shot guided him out to the road And rode him back to the barn again And then nothing else would do him but he rode him out to the road again And back to the barn again and jumped off of that mule's back and bowed real low, you know And everybody was clapping and hollering and whistling and that mule didn't do nothing didn't do a thing And I it uh It really amazed me it really did because I didn't think nobody could ever ride that mule I just tried it one time myself And uh and I got thowed and I never did try it again And the only thing that I can figure out really is that That mule must have been so surprised That he just didn't know what to do or maybe it was that he'd know that hot shot wasn't scared of him And so it just made him uh, you know tamed him down so hot shot could ride him I don't know but it really surprised me but hot shot is a he's a he's a big shot. Everybody's a hero Everybody talks about that and everybody was talking about it uptown and of course hot shot He didn't he after he does something like that, you know, he's always real humble And he said oh it wasn't nothing to y'all just make big thing out of it But uh, that that's a that's a kind of personal hot shot. He is a he's a good old boy though I won't tell you and I just think the world of a hot shot