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Show I I REMEMBER... I I BY THE OLD-TIMERS I From Mary Pepper of Caldwell, O.: "I remember sleeping in a trundle trun-dle bed. Also, when horses were used to tramp out the wheat. The sheaves were spread out on the r WE OUSHTA ) JB-. Vl' Vil VI I Be iw rue X. v J AM ' l,n- . barn floor in a large circle and two horses were used to tramp cut the grain. It would take half f day to tramp out one floor." From Mrs. J.; B. Davis of Cordova. Ala.: "I remember when Mother used a 'battling paddle' to beat dirt off the family clothes on wash days. She would wet the clothes, then smear on some home-made soap made from lye drippings of hickory or oak ashes and hog entrails and meat scraps that were too rank to be eaten, then lay them out on a bench or block of wood. My sisters and I would take turns beating the dirt out. There were no rub boards in those days." From Mrs. Minnie H. Burner oi Philippi, W. Va.: "I remember when we Burners literally earned our bread by the sweat of our brow raising corn, wheat and buckwheat and having it ground into meal or flour at the nearby water mill. We also made our own maple sugar for table use and syrup and cane sorgum to go with the pork sausage and buckwheat cakes in winter." From Mrs. J. S. Glass of George town, Ky.: "I remember cooling cool-ing day at sugar camp. My fathe cooked and stirred barrels of mo lasses all day and into the night until it was the right thickness For Christmas, my mother made sugar cakes, molded in fancy little pans." |