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baby would live only a few hours at most. Mom was OK.
After the baby died (she was named Hazel) some of the women wrapped her in a blanket and put her in a box. I believe it was a large shoe box. Next morning Ed Hughes went with me and we took her to Pierre where the undertaker took care of the legal end of it. Then we went back to Okobojo where she was burried beside her brother.
The rest of February passed and so did March. April began to melt the snow and ducks and geese flew north. Farmers were planting small grain for the hoppers to have later on. Spring had come and the feeling was good.
Willis wrote that he would be ready to start moving the cattle and horses to Clear Lake for shipment on the 25th or 26th and would like Ted Warne and me to come help him.
I think it was the morning of the 25th that we headed for Brookings in
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