MAMA ALWAYS MADE A LOT OF CHRISTMAS CANDY. SHE'D HIDE IT TO TRY TO KEEP US FROM EATING IT ALL BEFORE CHRISTMAS. SHE COULDN T FIND A PLACE TO HIDE IT THAT IS COULDN'T FIND IT. I FOUND THE PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE SHE MADE AND SINCE THAT WAS MY FAVORITE CANDY I KEPT GOING BACK AND EATING JUST ONE MORE PIECE. LIKE BETTY WITH THE WINE I REALLY GOT SICK AND VOMITED AND MAMA KNEW WHAT WAS WRONG. SHE WASN'T VERY HAPPY AND IT WAS YEARS BEFORE I COULD' EAT PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE. SHE ALWAYS TRIED TO HIDE COCONUT WHEN SHE BOUGHT IT BUT MARION AND I ALWAYS FOUND IT. WHEN SHE NEEDED IT FOR A PIE OR CAKE HALF OF IT WOULD BE GONE.

EVERYONE HAD A WATER BUCKET AND DIPPER. EVERYONE DRANK OUT OF THE SAME DIPPER EVEN PEOPLE WHO CAME TO VISIT. GLASSES WERE ONLY USED AT MEAL TIME.

ONE NIGHT MARROW, GENE AND DADDY WENT RABBIT HUNTING. THEY LET JUNIOR GO WITH THEM. JUNIOR WAS IN THE BACK SEAT AND GENE HREW ONE OF THE RABBITS THEY HAD SHOT IN THE BACK. IT STARTED KICKING AND JUNIOR JUMPED OVER INTO THE FRONT SEAT YELLING AND TALK ING. MARLOW, DADDY AND GENE TALKED ABOUT IT LOTS AND ALWAYS HAD A GOOD LAUGH. THERE ARE MANY HAPPY MEMORIES OF JUNIOR PREACHING, AUCTIONING THE CARS AND BAPTIZING ALL OUR KIDS. THEY ALL LAUGH ABOUT HOW THEY LET HIM PUT HIS OLD DIRTY HANDKERCHIEF OVER THEIR FACE AND BAPTIZE THEM. MARLOW AND DADDY WOULD REALLY CONFUSE HIM ABOUT WHICH CAR FORD OR CHEVROLET WAS BEST.

ONE TIME ELMER AND TREVAH HAD BEEN VISITING DADDY AND MAMA THEY KEPT HEARING A CAT IN THEIR GARAGE. THEY LOOKED EVERYWHERE AND COULDN'T FIND IT. ELMER (AFTER A FEW DAYS) OPENED THE TRUNK OF HIS CAR AND THERE WAS A CAT IN A GUNNY SACK. IT WAS STILL ALIVE. MARTIN HAD SEEN THEM HAUL OFF CATS THAT WAY.

WE HAD A REALLY BIG HORSE TANK AND IF THERE WAS NO WIND TO RUN THE WINDMILL WE HAD TO PUMP WATER BY HAND INTQ THE TANK. MARION ALWAYS FUSSED AND SAID THAT WAS GIRL'S WORK. HE WOULD NEVER CARRY BUCKET OF WATER INTO THE HOUSE. THAT WAS GIRL'S WORK.

WE HAD TO TAKE BATHS IN A WASH TUB, ONE DAY I HAD FIXED MY WATER. JUNIOR WANTED TO TAKE A BATH SO I LET HIM. KIDS ALWAYS TOOK BATHS IN THE SAME WATER THEN. WHEN JUNIOR GOT OUT HE HAD lEFTT A BIG TERD IN THE WATER. I WAS SO MAD--MARION LAUGHED AND LAUGHED. I GOT THE BEST LAUGH. MAMA MADE HIM CARRY IN WATER FOR ME A BATH.

I THINK EVERY TIME IT THUNDERED WE WENT TO THE CELLAR--AN OLD .DIRT CELLAR. WE KNEW THERE WERE SNAKES AND SPIDERS IN IT BUT WE'D BE SO TIRED THAT WHEN DADDY WOULD YELL LETS GO TO THE CELLAR WE WOULD GRAB A QUILT AND GO. WE WOULD THROW THE QUILT ON THE FLOOR AND GO TO SLEEP.