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ON THAT SAME TOPIC of time: A hillbilly boy was late for school one day, but the teacher accepted his excuse, which was "Paw got drunk last night and slept on the back porch. It was a hot night, so he took off all his clothes. About 4:00 AM, Maw woke him up, because she heard a racket in the hen house. Paw grabbed his shotgun and ran outside and aimed it at the chicken coop. Just then, our old hound dog came up behind Paw with its cold nose--and we been cleanin' chickens every since."