Ansel's first whuppin...

This morning when Ansel asked where we were, and I told him Topeka, KS... he said oh, that's where he got his first obviously memorable whuppin.

They were at the race track and he had a little dog, a small hound and a feller happened along and admired the dog and asked if Ansel would sell him to him? Ansel said sure for $5.00, that was a pile of money for a boy in 1921 or so. So they exchanged the money for the dog and off the man went with his dog. they went about their business, took care of horses etc, and went home. ( or rather to where they were sleeping) When they came back in the morning the dog was curled up in front of the tack room. Ansel was happy to have his dog back...

Then another man came by, and offered to buy the dog too. So Ansel sold the dog and got another $5.00 for him and off that man went with the dog. Happy and rich Ansel went of to play... and pretty quick here came the first man looking for the dog thinking it might have come back... Ansel's dad calls him, and then he has to explain to his Dad and the man that didn't have the dog anymore that he resold him...

Fortunately he still had the loot, or "boot" as he calls it and was able to give the man his money back... but then the whuppin from his dad came... and he never did anything like that again.