When I was kid I was a really fast runner--fastest kid in the neighborhood.   

    One evening we were playing 'Whistle an' Holler and the Hounds Will Foller,' a combination tag/hide-and-seek game. I was on the deer team. We had whistled and hollered. The hounds had spotted me and I was running as hard as I could for 'base' through the neighborhood back yards. It was nearly dark and I didn't see the clothesline stretching across my path.

    I think I already said I was running hard. Well, that clothes-line caught me right under the chin....And I was running SO fast, that when they found me the next morning I was still spinning 'round and 'round that line by my chin!

Janie