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If you're going to drink whiskey, that's pure the other stuff has to much dope in it
MF Plain alcohol my mother use to put some water to it she use to get some kind of stuff from the drug store to flavor it
TF and give it a color too you know if it was 100 proof you diluted it down to 90 or 80 or whatever you wanted
TF Moonshine is pure white, that's just like alcohol, that's what it is when it comes out, and you gave it a coloring
DM Wasn't that a caramel flavoring
TF you gave it any kind you want
MF Cherry flavor she used to get
TF We use to get all kinds
DM Incredible
TF yeah but these were the good old days
MF I wouldn't want to go back to them
DM Now you have to pay all that tax on the liquor and it's really expensive, I started to talk about jobs but I got lost somewhere, I think I already talked to you about this but I would like to ask you some more about it if I could about how you moved to a higher position like from one position to another you atrted off as a mule patcher
TF You had to follow in line
DM Like the seniority system
TF Yeh, then you went to two mules or if a job opened for laborer that paid 5.49 then you had to go for your minin' papers and then if a job opened for minin' well
DM Now how did you get your mining papers
TF You had to go and take an examination
DM Up at Freeland