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some of them.
Robert got in a good spot in a cornfield and had real good luck. As I remember it he had twice as many ducks as i did but we had a lot of fun getting them.
Everything that winter wasn't a pleasure though. One cold night we had to take Minnietta to the hospital at Britton. She had infection. We hadn't been in the hospital fifteen minutes when she went into convulsions. That's a nasty sight. Nurses and a doctor were there in a matter of seconds. She stayed in the hospital a while, maybe a week. Doc got the infection stopped and she started to gain and got OK.
I think it was March when we moved into this nice house. It had a furnace, indoor toilet with bath, electric lights, hard-wood floors, etc. It would be OK with me if we still lived in it. But no such luck. Peavey sold the elevator that summer. One day Lytle came in and told me he had just sold me out of house and home. It was quite a shock. I ask if he had someplace for me to go. He said no. Then as an after thought he
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