scatter rake, I riding the horse and Hazel dumping the rake. We would go turn about after a time and change places. Vernon gave us 25¢ a day between the two of us. Every summer from then on saw me in the Hay field trying to make a little money of my own.

One August about 1916 I spent five weeks sitting atop a stock of hay and shouting at the cows as they came near. the $3.50 I earned at 10¢ per day was cheaper than putting up a temporary fence.

My first interest outside my home the and playmates came in 1914. I can see yet the cartoons about war in our Literary Digest and the daily papers. One in particular gripped my attention. Marching into a hail of bullets were thosuands of Belgians. They seemed to be like pygmies against the huge German guns who were mowing them down. After awhile, […] the pictures and having the talk, in