ORNERY VIEW
“What a beautiful view you have,” the tourist said to the Ozark farmer. “Maybe,” replied the farmer. “But if you had to plow that view, harrow it, cultivate it, hoe it, mow it, fence it, brush-hog it, and pay taxes on it, it would look perty ornery.” From “The Way I Heer’d It” by Jim Reed, The Ozarks Mountaineer, May-June, 1985
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