Life
On The Farm
Old Mobeetie, 1930's The Morgan boys were hanging out at the store, or the pool hall. The rain's had soaked the fields and plowing was out of the question. Some neighbor boys rode up on horseback, as one of them asked, does anyone here want to fight?. Well Dorsie Hutchison, (later to become Adell's brother-in-law), replied as he pointed to Red, "he does". Enos and Red trained all the time to box. They would jog in place on one-another's stomach to toughen their ab's. Reds horse was named Pat and Enos called his horse Sassafras. They told many stories about those horses. Red trained his to come to the halter, in a narrow passage of an old barn. Enos killed a snake in the pasture one time and when he held the reptile from horseback the tail drug the ground. In the 1950's during the "TOP of Texas" Rodeo Parade; Red swore that he heard the familiar clip clop of "Old Pat" from somewhere behind, on the street.
by Claude Morgan