The Ghost Biscuit ----------------- William "Doot" Vincent and his twin brother Wilburn "Hap" Vincent were two of the five younger Vincent Boys brothers. Dad used to tell stories of their childhood, how they'd stop on the way home from school to go skinny dipping in a local pond, etc. It seems the boys were always getting into trouble. One time they got into trouble for walking to school barefoot in the snow. They had shoes -- just didn't like wearing them. The teacher sent them home to get their shoes on. Once, my father "Hap" found an old electric coil wrapped with copper wire so thin and dark that you almost couldn't see it because it was very fine. He said back then they used to carry their lunch in the bib pocket of their overalls -- usually a biscuit with sorghum syrup. This day dad had an extra biscuit so he decided to play a trick. He carefully wrapped the copper wire around the biscuit and unwound enough wire across the floor that the teacher couldn't see the source. He hid the biscuit under a classmate's desk until the right time. When the teacher was addressing the class, dad began slowly pulling the biscuit out from under the desk near the front of the room. His desk was near the back of the room and the wire was long. The teacher didn't know what was going on, only that all the kids began giggling as the mysterious biscuit travelled under its own power slowly across the floor. I asked dad how he got away with it. "Oh," he said, "I just snapped the wire when the teacher began tracing it and threw the end across to another row." That way, when the teacher got to the end of the wire it stopped in the middle of the room and was coiled there, impossible to find the owner. Dad said everyone got a big laugh out of it and they never realized he was the power behind the mysterious 'Ghost Biscuit.'