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Show "I REMEMBER" i BY THE OLD TIMERS From Mary E. Osborn, Plea, ant View, Ky.: I remember when my father owned oxen he made a yoke of popular wood. He made ' bows of hickory and dressed the wood with his drawing knife. He made holes in the yoke with an auger and bent the bows to lit around the oxen's neck. He hitched them to his farm wagon to haul corn fodder, fire wood and many other things. In the fall when the crop was gathered and put away, he would go to Pleasant View, to buy salt, flour, sugar and coffee to do us all winter. In the winter time the mud was to the waRon hubs. Rabbits, squirrels, quail, wild turkeys were plentiful and hunting was fun. When the snow fell and the ground began to freeze, our hogs were killed and salted down on the meat bench in the smoke house with a winter's supply of apples, beans, cabbage, kraut, sweet and Irish potatoes. We youngsters popped corn, made tuff jack, ate apples and roasted potatoes. po-tatoes. The boys set traps and would catch six or eight rabbits, racoons, opposum and other game, a pasttime that made the wintertime winter-time seem more fun and appear shorter and less dreary. We always waited for March to come blustering over the hilla. Warm sunshine burst buds into April flowers and wild flowers spread rainbow colors everywhere. Wild birds would sing Jubilees in every tree and apple blossom petals showered down all around. Pleasant dreams. Peace on earth, and the old blue hen singing in the farmyard. And then the fields were planted again in corn and potatoes and other things. (Srnrt contribution! I thla eelama ! The Old Timer, Commenlly Free 8r ice, box i, Frankfort, Kentucky.) |