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would be.  Willis had joined the army and had given some things to Kennedy's that I should have had and could have used. 

 

We moved into Grandma's house at Houghton and lived with her and Robert until almost spring.  Then we got a chance to get a real nice house.  In the meantime I sold the cattle to a buyer from Houghton.  After paying the feed loan and income tax I believe we had about two hundred dollars left.  That is a lot of money for ten years work isn't it?

 

I liked it at Houghton.  It was then and still is a duck & goose hunters paradise.  Robert and I had a read good duck hunt one afternoon.  It started to snow and I closed up the elevator and Robert and I took off.  He had a 16 double and I had the 16 you have now.  I had been lucky to get a case of shells from Spiegel Catalog.  Eagle brand shells and they were good.  You may remember 

 

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