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smaller one, two big lovely rockers and four heavy dining room chairs sent out on Friday morning. So who should come over after me early Saturday A.M. but Mrs Hover, she said, Pearl, I came to get you. I said Oh; I can't go I've got too much straightening up to do and hang pictures and etc. But she said, don't tell me what you can do or can't do; I said come on now because I have my light bread rising and if I wait too long to work it (knead) it will be ruined. Also told me that Willie said I wasn't feeling well. So what could I do but to go. Then that evening I walked back (a mile). Then next morning I woke Willie up and told him to go get Mary J.B., my sister-in-law, so we had a little pony who had taken us to get married so when he got her hitched to the buggy she refused to go one step. That was six O'clock in the A.M. and she said hadn't had her oats, so I suppose that was the trouble. Anyway, I said that he couldn't get her to budge so I went out and took her by the reins and talked to her and said now come on and go and I just did step back in time to keep from being run over. I mean she took him for a ride through those woods that morning. When Willie came back with Mary, I was frying bacon and fixing breakfast for my man. Mary scolded me good and put me to bed and at eleven o'clock Volney was born, a big ten pound boy. My daddy came down to tell us to come up to the old home as Stella had fixed a big dinner for us, so Mrs. Hover was there out in the front yard and told him I was sick and he said, I gollies; I was just down here yesterday and she wasn't sick then, so when she told him there was the doctors horse and buggy tied to the fence so then he caught on and said, I'll bring Stella down after dinner. So he hadn't been there long when he asked me what I was going to name the baby and I told him I hadn't even thought of a name. So he said I'd like to name him if it would be satisfactory with you and Willie. I asked him what name did he have and when he said Volney, I said, oh that's a horrible name. So Mrs. Hover told me after he left I should have let him name the baby because that would probably be the last one he'd get to name. So the next day when he came I said, did you come to see little Volney and he had a smile from ear to ear. So then he wanted to know if I had a second name for him yet and I told him no and he said I was thinking the name Ernest would go with Volney, so I told him that was his name. He said he had a wonderful lawyer friend in Minnesota by that name.
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