 Don't you boys read Shirley MacLaine? I can't make out that chicken scratching, but I heard some fellas talk about it down in the Cherokee. Seems that that, you don't know what it is, do you? No. Well, I'm going to tell you the true story. This is related to me by Wally McRae, old Montana cowboy. It goes like this. What is reincarnation? The cowpoke asked his friend. His pal replied, it happens when your life has reached its end. They comb your hair and wash your neck.