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DeBergh’s pond. He fished all day ■without a single strike. Toward the end of the day, when everyone was preparing to leave in disgust, the gentleman got a strike—and pulled out two beautiful bass on one hook! (Note to Mr. Campbell: will you please lend your Fisherman’s Liar’s License to be hung on the wall at “Rockbottom” for a few days?)
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Some time back, a plea went out in the county that if anyone knew—or could locate—the name of the carrier Indian women used to transport the babies, please send the information in to the paper.
Lately, a report has come from a lady in Amissville, ufho says the word is “pohcooch” and that she obtained her information from a man of Indian extraction.
A report comes from the Totem Pole, a restaurant on Route 29 south of Madison, where the proprietor has collected Indian data and lore. By searching through books, it was found by the folks at the Totem Pole that, though different Indian tribe had different patterns for making (these piggy-back baby carriers, there* was not a specific Indian name listed. Pictures of the different varieties used by the . various tribes called them “baby carriers’’, and “cradle boards” but any Indian name therefor was not to be found in the books.
Since all this searching was for a youngster at Sperryville, it is best fo let him make his choice as to whether he wishes to take “pohcooch” as a name or just call it “baby carrier” or “cradle board.”
The whole affair began when the sole grandchild in the family was being teased because he was no longer to be the "only pebble on the beach;” there was going to be another grandchild. The boy’s grandfather and “uncle spent their time eiter teasing him or telling him all manner of wild tales. If the new baby were an Eskimo,
they were going to give it to
Grandmother to put in the deep
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