Being dead isn't so bad if your still alive (standard:adventure, 1593 words)
Author: stanley mcqueen kentucky backwoods writer	Added: May 15 2009	Views/Reads: 3426/1996	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
this story is about and old dumb country boys that plans his dead to see if his mountain girl friend loves him enought to marry him..

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not let this go on any further it was high time I become alive again, 
at once, so I high stepped it back to the bosom of my parents, and when 
maw seen me coming walking into the yard she screamed and passed out 
cold , paw was at the corn patch by the house , and heard her scream 
and come running, and I thought I was a goner, paw seen me standing 
there over maw and her passed out, and I will never forget his words, 
son you suppose to be dead and what are you doing alive, ? It took some 
good explaining to get paw to understand that my death was all planned 
out , for a real good reason, after he listen and worked with mammy to 
get her back on her feet, ‘Paw said that I should be horsed whipped for 
pulling such a stunt, and that he never heard of such a foolish thing 
that I had done, just to see if a gal was struck on me enough to marry 
me 

being dead a full week has sure got me into a mess of trouble , ever one
in the neighborhood knew that I was dead and drowned in the river, and 
when they seen me again not dead as they supposed, most was claiming 
that I was a ghost coming back from the dead and being alive it took me 
a good spell to get myself un dead , 

I decided that being alive was a lot easer than being dead, and to beat
it all mammy had give my sleeping bed away, and paw had give my horse 
saddle away , because he could not bare to look at it because it remind 
him of me when he look at it, 

so here I am alive and without a gal to marry or spark and not a stitch
of clothes left in the house to wear and no saddle for my horse, the 
hard fact of this has suddenly hit me and I pondered which was the best 
being dead to the world or alive , when I was alive I had all my 
clothes and things, and when I become to be known dead all my clothes 
were given away plus my horse saddle, 

if I had stayed dead a full mouth its un telling what would have
befallen me . Well I considered I had come out on top after all, for 
one main reason , to find out that the gal that I was hankering to 
marry was not fully in love with me after all, I had been dead just a 
full week and she has hauled off and married old Lester Snoot, well 
this stunt cost me a lot of good clothes and a good horse saddle, but 
it kept me from maybe marrying the wrong gal, 

paw he declares that I have a little loose nuts and bolts loose in my
noggin , and paw told me if I ever pulled such a stunt again that the 
next time that I took a hankering to be dead that he would oblige me 
and help me to be dead for real, I asked Richard for half of my twenty 
dollars back because the deal fell threw in just one week, and he told 
me that a deal is a deal and that he done spend the twenty dollars and 
that paw has sold him my saddle , and just to think I called him my 
friend, 

it come to my mind to become dead again , but with careful thoughts on
this I considered it was too to hard to become alive again so I give 
this thought up. And the words of my beloved departed Grandma bishop 
always quoted all is well that ends well the end”


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