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Show IpMEMBER" From Lewis Winder, Fresno, Calif.: I remember in the early 1900's my brother and I were teenagers back in Ohio, near At-water, At-water, south of Cleveland. We would take large umbrellas, get up on the barn, open them and jump down. We thought we were very daring. The farm next to ours was vacant va-cant and had an orchard, which was used to pasture sheep. We frequently would tease the big ram until he would come after us, then we would' dodge behind a tree. We liked the owner of the farm very much. One day, we noticed that the shingles had been taken off one side of the roof of the old house. We pitched in and tore the shingles from the other side. A few days later, the man discovered discov-ered what we had done and came to see our father. We had to explain ex-plain that we mistakenly thought he intended to shingle the other side of the house. Sliding down hills on sleds, and skating on large ponds was wintertime win-tertime sport. At school, we played fox and hounds. One boy would be the fox, others the hounds and we in for miles through the woods. other and I did janitor work r 50c a week. We banked the love with coal and had a warm tire going early each morning. . We had an orchard of 2S0 maple and sugar trees and making maple ma-ple molasses in spring was a great event. (Send eontrlbstlons Is this column to The Old Timer, Community frees Service, Bos , Frankfort, Keatuckjr.) |