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This collection of stories includes the story of a young hero, Waddell Fornes, son of H. C. Fornes, saves a train from a washout. In 1871, a hermit in coon skins was discovered living in the swamps of Contentnea Creek. His name was Edward Brown and he had fled to the swamps to escape being drafted in the Civil War. He still thought the War was going on. In 1939, Wyatt Tucker began a rat killing campaign with his rat terriers, Brownie and Jiggsie. They killed 30 wharf rats in his hog pen. And lasly funny tales of Jimmy L. Harrell, the ECU police chief finding a mule upstairs in Slay Hall and a pig in a Jones dorm.
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