Jim Sutton (Cataloochee, Haywood County, North Carolina) was age 60 when interviewed.
He had a third- or fourth-grade education and was a CCC employee.
Yeah, my daddy one time, he was an awful horse trader. He had an old wind sucker. One
morning he got on him. He said, "I'll trade that thing if I don't get nothing but a bull yearling
for him." That's about the cheapest thing on the market in this country at that time. So he lit
out, and he was gone about three days and nights, come back in. He had a big horse. He said
"Well," he said, "I sure did fix up that old fellow that I traded with. I let the latch down in his
barn." So he fed him and turned him in the stable, and he had a big sore on his back about as
big as a big saucer. Just as soon as he got him in the stable he [began] sucking wind. He'd
swapped a windsucker for a windsucker. Well, George was a right smart boy. He decided
he'd slip down and feed him one morning, went down and had a big wild house cat [that]
stayed in the barn. He raised a plank in the barn floor, and he thowed that cat on that poor old
horse's back, and then the row started. You've never heared no such commotion in all the
days of your life down there. My daddy, he hollered for mother, says "Mother, come here."
He says, "confound it, that cussed old cat scratched my horse" and said, "he's teetotally ruined
him."