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January 1, 2016 at 3:12 am #7679
anonymous

    What exactly is “hide service”?

    There was a warehouse in New Iberia that one August day in the early 60s had the door open, and it was stacked to the ceiling with muskrat hides. You could have retired by selling clothes pins for noses within several blocks. A partially loaded boxcar was spotted there, doors open, likewise odoriferous.

    If that is “hide service”, those cars could not have been used for anything else after one loaded summertime trip, they stank to high heaven, words cannot be found for that stench.