22. The Billy Rough

Notes: THE BILLY ROUGH was collected from Dear Rathbone, a Berea College student from Haywood County, North Carolina in 1980.  Dean learned this from his uncle Miles Rathbone, also of Fines Creek. A subsequent letter from Dean says that this incident really happened in the Jerry rough.  Dean has written many stories from his home on Fines Creek. (see https://www.facebook.com/groups/1039030522847750/)