We have several old implements found beneath the muck in old barns and in junk stores. One is a rotary corn sheller. Dry ears of corn are pushed in at one end, the handle is turned, and partly crushed corn kernals come out. You will never convince me that the line "Jimmy Crack Corn" couldn't have originated here, since every farm that raised corn had one of these. (Yes, it is possible that crack corn means telling jokes and gossiping. Where some of these people get the idea that it refers to corn likker is beyond me).

I take back the statement that beef of the type used for chicken-fried steak of the past is extinct. In Honolulu, after a search for old records, I stopped in a "steak house" and ordered one from the bottom of the menu (about $20). I couldn't cut it with a "steak knife." When I finally got a piece to my mouth and chewed, it just got tougher and seemed to increase in size! I gave up and went to a noodle shop. I know that critter didn't come from the Parker Ranch, I have eaten some of their beef and tain't bad. But somewhere in the mountains of Hawai'i, running with the wild pigs, is a horned animal that is suitable for chicken-fried steak.