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Bonjour!
Memories! One April, I came out of Roswell, N.M., after a delivery there. Beautiful country. Sometimes lonely in my truck, I gabbed on the CB, headed to Woodward, Okla., to pick up a load of plaster of paris.

I have ridden on a jet ski once and it was lots of fun, but I’ve never driven one. Today, a Sunday, there are at least two jet skis on my section of Belle River and I keep holding my breath that they don’t hit each other.

The year 1904 was a hard one for Sheriff John Addison Perkins of Calcasieu Parish, which then stretched all the way to the Mermentau River. He’d made a name for himself several years earlier with the arrest and execution of Ed Batson, who had been accused of multiple murders.