I was about 10 years old. LJ was drilling a well for us in Smithwick. He got me off to the side to ask me a few questions.

“When your daddy goes fishing, what kind of bait does he use“?
I was more than willing to tell him my daddy didn’t use, bait. He used a telephone to fish with. He got me to tell him exactly how it was done and how many fish they would get each time.

About that time he reached in his pocket a flashed something, real fast, saying “you see this badge, I’m an undercover game warden, I’m going to arrest your daddy when he gets down here because all that telephoning fish stuff is against the law“.

That’s about the time I started trying to explain that I was just saying all that, that my daddy would never break the law.

He got the biggest kick out of that and teased me about it many times in the years to come.

He loved a practical joke as well as anyone.