Bigger than Life
- Thread starter Lawrence
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Well, I see no one has taken the hook yet leading the way so I thought I would continue on. For me my Grandfather Paul England was my big fish. He was a big hard-working man born back in 1894. He helped as a child on the farm and his highest grade level he attained was sixth grade. He was the proof that you did not have to be a man with high education to be a great man. Some people called him a stupid old man and barely literate, he was my Big Fish and I loved him. He provided for his family, and they never suffered for they had all their wants. He did not lie he told the truth but lots of people would not believe him because his perception was different than most. He would tell stories of hand fishing for catfish on riverbanks, wearing stovepipes on his legs when he went fishing at some lakes so he would not be bit by the snakes, working on harvesting crews traveling across Missouri and the surrounding states. He would say the wind blew so constant in Kansas that when the farmer and wife would make lunch for the harvesting crew that they would wash up and place their hats on the house the wind would hold their hats on the side of the house the entire time. They would go inside to eat and when they went back outside, they would pick their hats of the side of the house the wind had held the hats in place the whole time. The time when he and his friends went fishing and found a dead man sitting upright with a fishing pole in his hand. They put the dead man in the back seat of the car and one man sit on each side of him when they took him to the towns sheriff's office to report what happened. The dead man was solid in state, and they would ask the dead man questions and if he rocked back and forth it meant the answer was yes and id if he moved from side to side the answer was no. The answers they received from the dead man spooked then so much that they were glad to drop the man off and get out of town. I loved my grandfather he had so many stories that were true but told from a different perspective. He also so had many old-time words of wisdom that applied to leading a good life and helping so many people. I can go on and on about him for he was and still is my Big Fish. I wanted to grow up and be like him and I kind of did.