[Iowanian]

Story.
Some of you may recall a story I've shared about my granddad and my first "shocked" memory of life. This is the very gun I recall so vividly being used to put down the animal.

In short, as a maybe 4 year old boy, my grandpa, my great uncle and dad were getting ready to butcher a hog. Grandpa told me to run to a corn field not far away and fetch a "good cob". I shot away like from a cannon, and ran my stubby legs over to the field, fetched up a good corn cob and ran back.

Now being a boy, unfamiliar with many words, some things just didn't make sense.

I asked Grandpa what he was going to do with it, and just after the crack of the gun and the falling of the animal, as it was being raised by the tractor scoop, my grandpa said "i'm going to put it in his anus"....as he did. I asked why he did that, and the answer had to do with keeping the feces off of the meat, but I didn't understand that either.

I was floored. Shock and awe. He stuck that cob where?!!!

They proceeded to butcher the animal, as usual. It wasn't shocking in and of itself. Its important to note at this time in my life, I was a big, big fan of The Dukes of Hazzard.

The next day at church, I remember looking at my grandpa, a little confused and asking myself...."Why would he do that to Enis?"

I told him that story last night and we had a good laugh.