[Fred Douglass]

.......could tell any type of wood just by smelling it.

The guys at the back of the shed used to amaze customers with Bill's ability. One day, a customer was very doubtful about this, so they started a demonstration. They put a cedar plank down and Bill said: "That's easy. That's cedah!"

Next, yellow pine. Ditto. Then redwood. Ditto. Walnut. Same. Finally, as a joke, they grabbed young Shirley out of Shipping and had her lie down on the table, face down. Bill hovered close above the back her skirt just a moment then reared back upright, saying: "Flip it ovah!" They did so and he went back to work. He sniffed the front of her skirt and then looked up: "Y'almost had me theah. Got it though: that's the sh*thouse door off'n a tuna-boat!"