C.B. Arnette shares his memories of Murfreesboro.

[Rowland:  "Tell me about the peddling wagon."]  "Well, it was a wagon that was about twelve feet long.  And it had a canvas top to the back of it.  And this canvas also covered the seat on which we sat.  Two of us could sit on that seat.  And I can remember him [father] stopping.  People would want to buy some meat.  He would go around to the back, and he had a set of scales hanging in the wagon.  And they would tell him how much they wanted and how much bone they wanted.  [. . .]  Yes, because a lot of them used soup bones in those days.  And it turned out, in most cases, he gave them the soup bone if they would buy some meat."

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