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problem; William Harry Green.
I don't remember
why I wasn't on had for your arrival but I wasn't. I went to Pierre
the next day to take a look at you. Like everything else on the farm
you looked hungry so figured you'd fit in so we might as well keep
you. Turned out to be one of the three best things we ever did.
Our cattle were doing pretty good and I needed a bull so got a loan and bought a registered white face. Bought him at a sale at Selby. That is, I had a trucker buy him for me.
Dorothy had been teaching up near Trail City, west of Mobridge. On
the day of the sale at Selby I went to Trail City and got Dorothy and her
belongings in the pickup . I remember it rained hard on us most of
the way home. Dorothy could hardly wait to see Will Harry (that was
you). You were about a month old by then. You hadn't become
boss yet but you were working on it.
That summer the Government went all out on a program of poisoning grass hopper, Farmers had been poisoning