Early Shedding Reports

One of the first reported encounters with the shedding of bacon was by a rural letter carrier in Washington Parish Louisiana.  George Boudreaux Williams was his name.  It was a cold February Monday with north wind and no blue sky showing.  At 7:00 a.m. George had his 1961 GMC truck loaded with the route 1 mail.  That days mail included 2 tires from Sears and Roebuck for one of his stops.  George was a tall boney fellow  about 6 feet 3 inches tall.  Each day as he started his route the store keepers would grin when they saw him sitting in the middle of the truck seat waving to them with one hand out each window while steering with his left knee.  Well to make a long story short George had a flat and  had to change it in the mud.  He only had a cup of coffee before starting the route and there hanging on a rattan vine were 4 beautiful slices of Leroy bacon!  George ate them and told half the Parish about the next day.  Few believed but George enjoyed.