Year ago we had a little bus what run around Harper and taken peoples where they wanted to go. Most peoples what rode the bus was too old or too poor to own a car and it come in handy for them, I reckon.
Lurlene Mayo at the time of this story were between eighty and ninety year old. She were frail and real shaky like. This day she caught the bus and rode it to the bank where she cashed her government check. Then she went right back out and waited for the bus to return her back home. Little did she know but this young fellow were watching her and figured he had him some easy money coming his way. When she got out, close to where she lived, it were in a spot with no houses on that block, just woods. The man got off with her and grabbed her and she started yelling but it were so weak nobody could hear her. She had put the money in a little tobacco pouch what was pinned to her underwear. The bad guy seen where she put it cause he were in the bank with her when she done it. It warn't no big job for him to take the money and run into the woods. But two little boys seen what he done and went running for the law. And they warn't too far off. The sheriff and his deputy. They went down into the woods where the boys pointed and in a little bit here they come, each one holding onto the man's arms. He were all beat up looking. Nobody asked but the deputy said, "He fell." Then the sheriff handed Lurlene Mayo her money. She counted it and said, "Sheriff, I have to be honest. You gave me $424.50 and I only got $248.64 from the bank." And the sheriff said, "Well, Ms. Mayo, I reckon the difference is for your trouble."
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