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Sarah's relatives beside another girl had come in there after the day at Mardi Gras. Anyway he found us a small room but neither of us cared how small it was just so there was a bed. We did the same way we did at Mrs. Carpenters, neither one said good night as we were tired out from standing on the street all day. The next morning we caught the train back to the Bay and Mrs. Carpenter had a big dinner for us. Also Marie had made us a cake. That's where I learned how to make Apple Dogigger. I couldn't remember the name so I called it Dogigger. All I could remember was how good it was. Marie fed & watered the pony while we were gone. After dinner we started home and got to Mrs. Hovers around four o'clock, we stayed there a little while and then went on to my dads and who was there but my brother-in-law and one of my old boyfriends. Mrs. Brown had given Willie and I a quart of wine so my daddy had gotten a woman who used to cook for Potavans Hotel here in Pearlington when Pearlington used to be on the Boom. It used to be a big brick and sawmill town back in the (1900s) nineteen hundreds.
We had the same arrangements the third night as we did the first and second night but the fourth night we stayed at his home where we made it our home for a year. We were both so happy when we were living on the Orr place.
After Volney came along on March 11,1917, Mr. Hover (Willies father) came to the house every day that the weather permitted to see his baby, as he called Volney. I don't know why he loved Volney so. I called Mr. Hover daddy and Mrs. Hover mother. Idemia and Epps both told me that their daddy loved me as much as he did any one of his children. I never heard him speak a cross word the whole six years I lived with them.
Willie drove an ox team at that time hauling logs to the river and he had his feed (troughs) feed boxes over at his daddy's and he said every evening his daddy would come out to the barnyard while he was feeding up and beg him to move back with them. So the doctors has already told Willie that his fathers heart was as large as a cows heart and they put him on ditieshatles. So when Willie told me he wanted us to move back I told him I didn't want too. So he said, well I think he's scared he's not going to live much longer and he's looking out for mama. So we moved back and he lived four years
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