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hollering "lce""man" and he'd bring the ice in and put it in the box of sawdust so it would keep better, then you'd put your jars of milk and other things in the ice, and it would keep several days. Now if you young folks don't know what gunny sacks are, I'll try to explain the best I can. It's real rough material made into sacks, called gunny sacks. You bought cow feed, hog and horse feed in them. You could also use them in many different ways such as for door mats, mopping floors, as you'd scrub your floors with a shuck scrub then rinse thoroughly and put your gunny sack down and put both feet on it and go to mopping. You'd have to ring it out when it would get wet. Non one knew what a bought mop was in the old days. No one knew anything about bought mops even no further back than in the 1920s. But thank the Lord for giving the one the talent for knowing how to invent them. They've been a Blessing as well as Electricity.
To go back to Andrew and Mary. He would not work or may be never knew how because he and she were both as gruffy as could be. There was a man by the name of Jessy Lott who lived in Gainesville and had a big family and he drove an ox team to have logs so he went by Andrew's one day as they lived right by the Highway and found Mary at the point of death and he asked her what he could do to help and she just could speak and she said if I just had a cold biscuit so Jessy told her he go home as fast as he could and have his wife Lecca, to fix a plate of food but when he got back, she was gone. The door was so narrow they couldn't get the box they put her poor body in through the door so they just got her through the wooden shutter. They said an inch or two more they would have had to tear a panel out to get the box through. Only 3 or 4 men attended the funeral. It was all so "pitiful"
One time not long after Mary's death my brothers wife was there spending awhile with us, so my brother-in-law Jahue Murphy came to the house and told Sady and I that he was passing Andrew on the road one day and he told Jahue that Sady and I had begged him to come in and stay with us, so Jahue come and told us about it and he said Pearl you should tell him about that lie so I said just leave it up to me, so the next day or two we saw him coming so she and I ran out in the front yard and hid behind a big cedar tree that was covered with wisteria vines and when he got up nearly to the gate, Sady and I stepped up to the gate and I said Andrew; what possessed you tell
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