WHAMPUS KITTY by Manager 1

Always the best memory is of the "Whampus Cat". We spent the night (many) at Granny Vowell's ( You know we never said at Granddaddy Vowell's did we?) We slept in the living room on the strange fold out couch that the back laid down and made a 3/4 bed. Very late at night when we were supposed to be asleep, we could hear a noise on the front porch. The noise was a clawing on the screen sound, We all would get real quite and wait (ofcourse this was after we screamed awhile) and we all knew that it really was the WHAMPUSS CAT! After many years we learned that it was Granddaddy Vowell coming in from his late night. I loved staying there!

Donna adds: The Wampus (which is how I always thought was spelled) Kitty had a barbed-wire tail. The New Orleans cousins made up a song about it. The couch's seat and back were the same size, and often they put three of us on it, and somebody had to sleep on the crack. The closet in the back bedroom didn't have a handle on the inside, even though it did have a window, and at least once Ronald hid in there so he could spend the night.