Re: My first treasure

Posted by Hugh MacKay on June 08, 2005 at 02:34:17 from (216.208.58.187):

In Reply to: My first treasure posted by Errin OH on June 07, 2005 at 09:49:09:

Errin: Farmers have been loosing and plowing up mainly tools since the beginning of time. Now the anvil is not something most farmers would lug out for field service. I may be able to explain the anvil.

In my home town there was a couple, she is still living and a widow. We will call them Mr. and Mrs. D. He was about 4" shorter than she. Before marriage their family homes were about 3 miles apart. He lived next door to the local blacksmith shop. During their courting years, someone stole the anvil from blacksmith shop. Now we are talking of an era when few people had cars or trucks, courting by young people was usually done on foot. Some years after their marriage, the blacksmith's anvil was found near the home of Mrs D's parrents. Mr. D took a lot of heat over that one, most common of course was lugging an anvil 3 miles to stand on while smooching with Mrs. D. He really never lived that one down. Old timers told him that after winning the fair maiden's heart he should have lugged the anvil back.

No one ever seriously believed Mr. D took the anvil, nor did anyone believe the culpert was Mrs D's parents. The real culpert was known and it was determined the location of anvil was as far as he got by dawn that first night. I guess spending most of night lugging an anvil 3 miles made the culpert realize it wasn't such a great steal.

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