This is old blower, and I want to tell you about these old boys that live down here old Flossy butts she calls them the barbarians and And they are kind of wild, you know, they really are but they know harm and need one of them as they's three of them two brothers Cushin and Doc Cushin Doc mitten is the brothers and then they've got this old boy that stays down there with them and his name is Booker Cohen he's a Afro-American gentlemen and his name is Bush of Booker Cohen and old Cushin Doc they brothers see and and that's their names, you know, I asked old doc I said what is your real name? And he said no doc is he said that he don't he don't talk much But he said name was doc so I guess that's his name I don't know who would name somebody doc but because I can tell you one thing he sure ain't no doctor but these old boys are they they lived down there on the river in the woods and and They they fish and hunt for a living and the only time you ever see them is when they come to town You know, they'll bring fish in the town or during deer season They'll bring in a you know a deer and sell it and they they stock up on groceries, you know, they drink a whole lot of coffee They buy coffee by the you know by them coffee beans by the sack. They got these big old Or about 10 pound sack of coffee beans down here They buy up, you know, six or seven of them and they get flour and lard and and meal and you know stuff that then they just lived there on the river and in the woods and they Catch fish and hunt for living is what they do They don't do nothing else and well They do there is one other thing that they do and that is they make moonshine and they First time I ever met him well first time I ever met him was when I went down there fishing and I run into him Had never seen him before and they are good old boys if you stay Up win from them. They don't they don't clean up is what it is and you know They know excuse for that because I know they ain't got no running water But they could you know they could wash off in the river if they want me to do but they don't and they I don't know No other way to put it then tea they they just stink and they uh they all haired over They never well don't never hardly ever go to the barbershop and they don't hardly ever shave until they go to town Sometimes they'll shave if they get ready to go to town But I don't think old Booker Cohen has ever been to town or I never have seen him up there now I've seen a Kush and dock uptown only time they come up town is you know to sell something either fish or or Deer or or you know they've got some customers that buy a whiskey from him You know but that's only time you ever see him uptown is when they sell and stuff and then they'll go stock up on groceries They buy like I say coffee by the by the sack, you know they they drink them old Chickery beans and they they buy flour You know by the barrel and and meal and and lard and and that's all they buy You know they come back and they they lived in their woods and they fish and and hund and that's how they live but they They got into some trouble a while back.
Well, doc do you they I told you they made whiskey or they they made Whiskey down there and one time somebody told on them I don't know who it was what me because I don't care what they do They they made some whiskey down there and they got caught somebody turned to me and and old doc he was one they caught and they put him in jail and See Kush come by here. Well, he he got one of my cows he seen one of them that was marred up in the in the swamp down there and he brought her back to me and And I thanked him for it and I told him I said I'll pay you for the cow because I appreciate you bringing it back And he said no, he said he didn't want no money He said I would do the same for him and I said well, Kush you ain't got no cows He said I know it but he said you would you would help me if I needed help and and of course I didn't I didn't you know say no more to him because I know He meant what he said and Chris don't they don't talk much They don't say no more than they have to and if if he said no he meant no But he said do you know where I might find a job and he told me about old doc He said they caught old doc and he wanted to bail him out of jail. He said he didn't think he could Bust him out because he might somebody might get hurt. So what he wanted to do was a bail him out if he could and So I thought about it a little while because you have to be careful how you talk to Kush and So I said now Kush I've got to tell you something and he said I know I said I don't want to make him mad in No way, but I said yeah, I know where you can get a job But I said you've you can't get a job You know the way you are now I said you've got to go down and clean up and and shave and go to the barber shop I said ain't nobody gonna hire you just you know Looking the way you do now I said I don't mean no harm in the world and I don't ain't none of my business what you do I said if you don't want to shave that's your own business But I said if you expect somebody to hire you that's what you've got to do and And so he like I told you he don't say much but he said oh working a good job and I said well they've got this house house down there and they looking for somebody to to deliver the ice and I ought to tell you that they still keep his ice house running down here now You don't see many ice houses anymore But we do have one down here and the reason that we do is because we ain't had no electricity down here Not for very long It just they just got to be in about a year and a half ago So they still keep this house house running down here because they steal a lot of people that ain't got no Fridgerators down here and ice is cheap and and so they keep the ice house going I don't know how long it'll be it'll be open because I think more and more people's getting refrigerators And I'm sure they ain't selling as much as they used to but anyway This house is open down here and and I told old kooish that I said you can get your job delivering that ice if you want to So he he thanked me and he went on off with the next thing I heard Oh kooish was delivering ice down there and he had he had cleaned up and got him a haircut down there to barbershop and a and a shave and I was talking to Randy down there at the barbershop and he told me he said don't you send me no more current customers and he was talking about old kooish because He had shaved him and he said he I guess he was joking But he said he wore out two razors on him I don't know if he was joking or not But he did have a big old bushy beard that he had to shave off and had his cut his hair and but anyway Oh kooish got a job down there and and it worked out good for a while He was delivering the ice and everybody was happy but see old kooish He got back into his old ways and once he got that job He let his hair grow out like he was before and People got the kicking on that but what they what really ruined him in his job was that he He wouldn't take a bath, you know and and so when he would deliver this ice He would just get them big old blocks of ice up under his arms that way and and take him into the house and deliver I mean, you know people got the kicking on that because they said that they didn't want nobody like that delivering their ass So oh kooish They they farted him, you know and he I think he was gonna quit anyway because he had already bailed out of jail and Doc was was down was back home down there and so I think he was gonna quit the job anyway But he lost it, you know, you wouldn't want nobody like that delivering your ass and so that's the reason they farted him Guy was a good one I know though man that runs the ice house down there named Jim Sanders and he said that said he he'd like oh kooish But he said, you know, you can't have no hairy man down there with you know they had no bath and stick an ice under his arm and and delivering it that way and of course I know that but then I thought I really thought oh kooish had better sense than that I thought that I could tell him, you know easy about it and and not make him mad and he would he would get the idea Well, he took me literary actually he did get cleaned up, but he didn't stay cleaned up so anyway, that's a that's a story about oh kooish and He is like I say they're good old boys and they they always come down here, you know when I'm having a picnic or We'll have a fish fry down here and every now and then I'll do a barbecue down here if you know when When I kill a hog or we'll have barbecue and and always invite Anybody that wants to come and oh kooish and Doc come and Booker Cohen come one time But he'd been back, but he just don't stay around people much.
He's a good old boy I like old Booker, but he just don't don't hang around people much anymore. He just like old Flossy, but said you know they barbarians I guess but they're good old boys, but anyway They are they read and I told you about him because they're really different from anybody that I've ever met in my life and If you ever run up on them, you know, they're they harm this and they all uh they'll share whatever they got with you But like I say just stay up when the problem. That's all you got to remember I one of one of the things that I wanted to tell you was that uh they They had old dogs Trial yeah, then I don't think they will I don't think they'll do anything with him because they can't they can't catch him You know, they've them boys are down there in the woods and they ain't gonna let nobody Take old Doc in and so I think the sheriff's pretty much has give up on it It wasn't his idea in the first place It was a revenue man that come down here and and caught old Doc and he took him to the sheriff and sheriff didn't have no choice But to put him in jail, but uh once old Cush bailed him out. Well the sheriff he said he was washing his hands of the whole thing and he said told uh uh he said if uh if They wanted him somebody else was gonna have to go down and get him because he said he wasn't gonna have nothing to Nothing to do with it and uh of course they didn't have no Evidence on docket all except that man's word that he had called him down there with the with the uh the liquor but Anyway, oh docket They ain't gonna do nothing to dock and he's and I blame because he's harmless He just making a little whiskey to make a little money to get by he's just trying to do like the rest of us get by