Page 138

 

I put my foot down and told mom the cat was to stay in Broadland.  That was before I was convinced that Jeanette had taken over as boss.  

 

I'm sure you remember the first time you drove the car alone.  You probably remember that better than I do.  It was the old '37 Chev.  It was over by the coal sheds between the two elevators.  I took Minnietta by the hand and we walked over to the house.  I asked you to bring the car.

 

Then we went to Grand Island and looked at cars.  This was 1948 and cars were still hard to get.  Going to Grand Island I can still see the trains pass us by.  I'd look in the rear view mirror and see a smoke in the distance.  In a few minutes a train would catch up and pass us by.  We were traveling about forty or forty five and I suppose the trains were going seventy or eighty.  I loved those old dirty stinking steam engines.  Just a few years

 

    <<prev       next>>