March 4, 2008
Struck on Scroggins
Gettin’ kinda struck on Scroggins. Scroggins kindly sneak up on ye. Happened like this.
Thank you for the fine book by Daryl Scroggins. I used to have a boyfriend in the 10th grade named Scroggins. He was so cute and cowboyish and curly-haired. But I could not stand his last name. In fact, I have forgotten his first name. And then I picked out a cute girlfriend with the last name of Gower, a really old English name. Better than my own. [SMW]
Thank you for passing this on. Your friend is wonderful — I can say that without further knowledge than what I find in this letter. And I am not at all fond of the name Scroggins myself. It has always reminded me of a person who only heads to town when it’s time to buy snuff and bullets. [DS(croggins)]
Buzz Scroggins just cracks me up. Scroggins is the worst name ever, and Buzz manages to make it even worse. I’ll be Buzz, and Daryl can be Slick. Or maybe Jett. I don’t know, but I get to be Buzz. [CS(croggins)]
Y’all have already run through all of the Faulknerian variations, yes? — Flem Scroggins, Ike Scroggins, et cetera . . . And, eh, did y’all know that L [__] T [_______] alluded on at least one occasion to “Renner’s friends, the Scrotums”? (I have this secondhand, and not from Renner.) [SR]
When I first met Daryl, I couldn’t stop thinking of his name as Scrotum. And now I are one! My ideal imaginary couple is named Peck and Flemmie Scroggins. [CS(croggins)]
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A lively one-act play (of a sort) featuring one WILLIAM SCROGGINS may be found here, within the Proceedings of the Old Bailey.
Despite the statement of SAMUEL BRIDGES that “I am a constable. On the night of the 25th of March I apprehended Scroggins in Tabernacle-walk, and found a lot of tuggs and leather in his possession; I asked where he got them; he said it was immaterial to me; I took the property to the watch-house,” the verdict rendered was –
*****WARNING: SPOILER*****
“SCROGGINS – NOT GUILTY .”