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some limbs and lightwood pieces for the fire place, but when I got the wheelbarrow and started I had only gotten a little ways outside of the lane when something told me to go back to the house and I threw the axe and all down and ran into the room where I put the baby to sleep and when I saw him it scared me almost senseless. He was lying there with his eyes rolled back in his head and shaking like a leaf and he was burning in up with fever so my nearest neighbor lived across the field from us so I wrapped him up and ran across the field with him and started calling for Miss Pet as I called her and when she came to me, I said Oh, Miss Pet; my baby is dying and of course she tried to comfort me and she told her son George to jump on the mule and go to Logtown which was five miles from Napoleon, and get Dr. McGowen and "hurry". And I suppose you know how fast a mule travels. Anyway, when the Dr. got there in his horse and buggy, Volney was over his chill by then but Dr. McGowen knew what was wrong because he had treated me through those nine months. He told me that Volney would more or less have one of those spells once a month or so until he was eight or nine years old so sure enough he never had another spell after he was eight. Miss Pet Davis was always so good to me. She'd come to me every time one of my babies was born and bathe and tend to him or her. She'd have to walk a half a mile each time. She had a daughter a little younger than me and Pearl would come to the house and get Volney and take him to her place and keep him all day some times. He was a breast baby but she didn't care she'd have her mother to fix him a bottle and would get him to sleep and he'd sleep two and three hours. I never missed him because it gave me a chance to do things I'd been wanting to do. Then when my next one came along, (Della) she did the same for her. Pearl was Willie's second cousin. She married Willie's nephew, Cecil Hover, they had one daughter and the best I can remember she was around the age of twelve when her father died. Thirteen I should have said. When sister Stella was still single and was home with papa and I she did all of the cooking and was she a "cook"! I suppose she and my other sisters inherited it from our mother and one of her brothers who cooked in a big hotel in Minnesota. She had two brothers, Uncle Lewis and Uncle Erwin. Uncle Lewis came South once to see her and the family. I was too young to remember him. My older sisters told me after I was older what a wonderful mother we had. They said she went around singing while she was doing her work. She had pneumonia and died when she was only forty two, then my youngest brother was the same age when he
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