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Show "I REMEMBER" SYTKSCLPTim: From Martha Dalton, Bond, Kentucky: Ken-tucky: I remember yean ago when I was a kid w always kept sheep. I would help my mother hear them after picking off the burn. We would wash the wool and send It off to have cloth made from it. Later, we would make blankets and underclothes and my mother would card some of the wool and spin it and knit all of our stockings stock-ings as well as father's socks. We didn't have coal to burn In those days, so we all went with our father to cut and taw firewood for the stove and fireplace. We would carry the wood far into the night on woodcutting days. At night, we would lit around the fire. Father raised cotton and every night we would place some of it In front of the fire. After it was warm, mother and the children chil-dren would pick out the seeds and mother would then card the cotton cot-ton and pad quilts with It Mother made her own soap. We also raised geese and I often helped mother get them into the barn and pick them and make feather beds and pillows. I still have my old wood stove which I wouldn't trade for any electric model. (Sana' aaatrlbatlee I tki aeleaia I Ttaa OU Tlmar, Caaiaianltr Praaa StT-la. StT-la. Baa t, Fraakfarl, Ktateekr.) |