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and feed them.  Don’t know if the old birds like it or not but it sure saved them a lot of work.   When they were all feathered out we could see the old birds teaching the young ones how to fly.  Then as summer moved to a close they would fly away.

Another pastime was looking for buffalo horns.  There wasn’t too many left but we would find one once in a while.  They were pretty well scaled and weather-beaten but by using a piece of glass to scrape with, in a few days we would have a shiny black horn. Whish now I had kept a couple but never did.

Pa had a well (shallow well dug by had) dug in the south west corner of the pasture.  When it proved to have enough water for the livestock he built a water trough.  The trough was about three feet wide, two high and probably ten feet long.  Maybe twelve.  Willis and I had to pump the water so one hot day when we got it full we decided to go swimming.  Of course the folks didn’t know this. 

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