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rabbit with a little hint of chicken taste added in. It was a mild
wild taste, quite good, when fried "Southern Style." Her dad, Ches
Sweat was a hunter, and she married into a hunting family, so she was
afforded opportunities to try different kinds of wild meat. This was
one of the many advantages of being raised on a farm, to enjoy some
of the bounty the local forest and stream provided. The somewhat
swampy land around us aided in providing a great variety of game and
wildlife. It also provided us with an abundance of less desirable
wildlife primarily reptilian in nature, mostly rattlesnakes and
moccasins, were always close at hand.
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