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We would have to just do everwhat she wanted us to do

My brother & sister, if we could get all our jobs done, why, Mother’d let us listen to “The Midday Merry-Go-Round” which was a comedy show.

Out the door came Old Betsy, sailing straight away. I leaped off the roof and landed right in the middle of her back! Away we went.

Lye was a very important thing. You’d use tallow to waterproof stuff with. You’d do your washing on a washboard with lye soap.

I’ve got a ’40 John Deere, it’s up there in the barn. And we worked around here and worked for other people. You helped other people.

Mrs. Riddle raises and sells vegetables, and keeps bees, but the real business of the family is raising beef cattle.

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