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her such a pitiful letter until when she read it she sat and cried like a baby. She had another brother and a sister but she said she loved this brother the most of all. He was the baby boy. He had such winning ways until all the girls fell for him. He was always smiling. I had two good picture of him and after Willie and I were married they disappeared and I accused Willie or his mother of doing away with them but they both swore they did not so I've never learned yet what became of them. One Sunday night this friend of mine went to church at Gainesville and as we were going home this friend of mine was walking so I stopped and told him to hop on the back of the buggy and we'll drop you off at your sisters so we did. So times like that was the kind of courting we did outside writing to each other. I had two young fellows in Bay St. Louis that when I was going to school at the St. Joseph Academy my father would go to the school on Friday as soon as school turned out and he'd pick me up and take me to a friends house where there were two young men and two sisters. Then my father would take me back to the Convent Sunday afternoon and then drive home in the horse and wagon 29 miles. He would come every month all nine months and take me to this friends house for the week end. One time one of the boys asked me if they'd go next door and get a piano would I play for them so I told him yes so he and his brother went to this two story home and brought that old large piano down those stairs and up a hill to their house so I played the piano and the oldest one picked the guitar and we made a racket and had a lot of fun. That Saturday night the oldest one asked my daddy if he could take me riding and show me the town, so my dad agreed so he called a taxi and I mean took in Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Lake Shore and all over the different places back and front.
I would have like to have known how much that Taxi Cab driver charged him, but he didn't care. Then awhile after that he came to Napoleon one Sunday to see me and just as he was leaving to go home here come Willie and he asked me who that fellow was just leaving? and as the road ran right in front of our home I said well, how do you expect me to know when there's people of all sort traveling this road all the time. So I didn't really call that a falsehood. Then another time when I was there one Saturday night the youngest brother asked me if I'd like to go to the picture show which was in walking distance of their house and I said yes, I'd like to go but I'm sure my dad wouldn't let me go, so any way he said just leave it to me. So he asked my daddy if he'd mind him taking me to the show as they were having a good Christian Movie that night, so my
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