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Page 83 When we got back to Okobojo the old house was about the same as we had left it. It had been lived in by a family by the name of Handcock and had been kept in fair condition. Handcock was running the store. Aleck had moved the post office into a small new building where he spent most of his time. A new town hall had been built. There were a few new faces around the community but otherwise everything was about the same. I got a job working on the haying crew at the Garrett farm about 5 miles west of town. They had several hundred cattle so putting up hay lasted most of the summer. Ernie Garrett did the mowing and raking and Geoff Garrett had the stacking crew. It was a good place to work and I earned some money that summer. Everything went along good until school started and then I got restless. It didn't seem right to see other kids going to school and me not going. When I got through at Garretts it was |