Hartlow Twins

Like most places we got a few twins living here. The pair people probably know best is Ricky Ronald and Dicky Donald Hartlow. They are farmers and come to town every Saturday to shop and just to hang around and get away from work. RR and DD live in the house they were born in some sixty years ago. Their mother is still alive and lives with them. Neither boy ever married. It is hard to tell them apart; they dress alike, part their hair (what's left of it) on the same side, and have a similar walk and body movements. They are alike in so many ways. Except, Ricky Ronald is an Ole Miss fan and Dicky Donald pulls for LSU. I reckon these boys get along as good as any other brothers in Harper. But not during the week before or the week after Old Miss and LSU clash. This year was particularly bad and their little melee toward the end of the game sent both boys to jail for one night. Somebody asked Ricky Ronald how they fared in the Harper County jail and he said, "It warn't too bad. At home we sleep in the same bunk beds my daddy built when we was boys and the jail cell had bunk beds so we slept pretty good." Dicky Donald said it was awful. "They served us hamburgers from the Ole Miss Drive-In and I think they was punishing me more that my brother. Kinda making fun of me, doncha know?"

 In case y'all don't know, Ole Miss won this year.

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