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I can eat a piece of young fried rabbit.
People are peculiar things. One afternoon real late, Ring and I decided we'd go get a rabbit for supper so we went over the hill to the swamp and it begun to get dark so when we started to come home I thought I was lost, so I starting hollering for Jay and he was already sitting at the edge of the swamp waiting for me. So he said he let me yell several times before he answered so it would scare me so I wouldn't go off in a swamp that late anymore. He said all you would have had to do was call Ring and tell him to lets go home and he would have led the way.
When we had pie or cake or something he liked he'd always give old Ring some, as he thought as much of him as he did himself. I'll always appreciate him for talking to me as a mother would when I was fifteen years old, he told me how to act around young men, he said when you start dating boys don't ever let them put their hands on you or hug or kiss you and if you go riding with one, don't let him put his legs over against yours and etc, etc. It's a wonder I listened to him I was such a tomboy, but I did and never had a boy to insult me ever. Everyone I ever went with respected me.
The only time anything ever went against the grain was one Saturday night not long before Willie and I were engaged. We had gone to a supper at the W.O.W. Lodge at Napoleon. Now in case some of you who reads this doesn't know what W.O.W. stands for, its Woodman of the World Lodge for men. Willie belonged to it for several years. So to go on with my story, he and I had gotten home and we were sitting in the buggy talking and he put his arm around me and put his hand a little too far to suit me, so I jumped out of the buggy and ran for the house but he caught me before I got to the gate, held me and of all the apologizing he did it because he knew it made me angry. And he said I was trying you out to see what you were made of because I want you for my wife and I wanted a decent mother for my children. One other time he apologized and that's the only two times in our sixty years of our married life together that I can remember of him ever apologizing. So then it wasn't long after that when he asked by to be his wife. I'll tell you how it came around for him to ask me.
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