One night Huse Edgemon was riding horseback past a black household in Catoosa County, Georgia just a few miles from his home. The black family was entertaining and they were dancing to some very lively music. Huse noticed that the fire in the fireplace had eaten through the clay glazing on the inside of the firebox, and had set the mud and stick chimney on fire. Flames were starting to lap up the outside of the chimney. He stopped his horse and knocked on the door. A young black couple came to the door. Huse said, "Your chimney is on fire!" The young man turned to the others in the room and in a loud laughing voice said, "Heare wha dis hera man say? He say de chimbley's on far!" Turning, he joined the other dancers. Huse said that he happened to be passing that way again in a couple of days and the house was burned flat to the ground! They had danced to the bitter end.

Submitted by J W Henson

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