One Saturday Pappy and my brother and I, along with another pair of boys, were gone to some sort of training at the area Boy Scout camp. Pappy was the Scoutmaster, so he decided that, unlike the previous Scoutmaster, he'd actually attend these district functions.
It was just after dark when we got home, and we wondered what was up, because Maw had all the lights in the house on.
Well, it seems a possum had gotten into our enclosed back porch--probably to work on the dry cat food we had set out for our pets. Maw saw the possum, and decided it wasn't going to survive the ordeal. So she put five shots from her .22 bolt action Marlin into the critter before it finally gave up the ghost.
Unfortunately, Pappy had parked his Cub tractor just outside the porch, and with a full tank of gas. One of the rounds had gone through the possum, through the porch wall and had dented the gas tank on the Cub just enough to cause the gas to leak. Maw had heard some fluid running, and decided to catch the escaping gasoline in what she called her "canner kettle" [although I don't recall her ever canning when I was a kid].
By the time we got home, the level of the gas was below the crease in the gas tank, and the gas had stopped flowing. Maw was just upset and flustered to the point of tears. So Pappy assessed the situation, grabbed a shovel out of the garage, and went to bury the possum.
A short time later, he came back to the house, shovel in hand, and handed it to Maw. "What's THAT for?" she asked.
"I buried the possum," Pappy replied. "Now you can bury the tractor." [A bit of bondo and paint fixed the gas tank for a number of years.]
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