Doniphan, Missouri
"I am eighty-six years ol', but I have good health an' shore do feel good. I have allers made it a practice to get up early in the mornin', light my pipe, get out and take a good ol' fresh breath ov Ozark Moountain air, as I go about doin' my mornin' chores. An' I think I have purty good lungs, too, cause I call my pigs in frum the hills every mornin' an' shell corn to 'em, an' you know they can hear my voice a mile away, an' h ow they do come runnin' in.
"By doin' this my pigs allers knows where home is an' I never have ter get out an' hunt 'em. All I got to do is jist git out an' yell a few times, an' they know my voice an' wast no time in gittin' here.
"Sometimes we have lean years an' they ain't enough acorns in the woods fer 'em to live on, an' they jist have to have a little corn."
.............from "The Pioneers of the Ozarks" by Lennis Leonard Broadfoot