Interview with Archie Jackson 21
April 4, 2001


B: I know. That's why we need to do it. It's not too early to do them.

J: I would love to have been able to talk with my great-granddaddy.

B: Yes, wouldn't that be wonderful.

J: Oh, the tales he told that my daddy told me of some of the things that went on.
 He told a tale, and I know for a fact that the wagon was there when I was a child out at Haile Plantation where that little cemetery is down there. There were pieces of wagon around that cemetery, and I asked him about that wagon. My daddy laughed and said, "There was a man that worked down there who had a horse and wagon. He was coming through there one night and he had a dog that rode in the wagon with him. When the dog would get tired, he would get up in the wagon. He was coming along at dark one afternoon and that dog jumped up in the wagon and that horse or mule or
 whatever ran away and hit a tree out there and scattered that wagon all over that cemetery." All I can tell you is what my daddy told me. He hit a tree and tore
 that wagon all to pieces. I've heard him tell that and laugh about it.

B: Did you ever hear the story around here of the Was that
 when you were growing up?

J: I never heard of that.

B: There was this old folklore story around the Prairie and in central Florida about a
 furry animal with like a

J: I never heard that tale. Now there were panthers here when I was a kid. There
 was one that came through on that Prairie regularly. We used to fox hunt down there and wildcat hunt on the Prairie with hounds, and that thing would scream.
 The dogs would leave. They would go home!

B: They didn't like that sound.

J: No, I never heard a tale of a

B: I've read something in the paper. I just talked to some old-timers and none of
 them know anything about it, so I don't think it was true. You were born and
 raised on the Prairie.

J: I was born and raised on the Prairie. I never heard that tale.

B: Okay, well, I think we've pretty well covered everything. We'll get this typed.
 We may have to do a bit of editing where we got blocked off, but we can fill that
 in later. I am going to go ahead and stop now.

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